https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2023/11/08/amazon-announces-new-benefit-for-prime-members-primary-care-services-for-9-per-month/?sh=6df7dbc37aca

JJ McCullough | Pushing on an open door

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/nov/15/removed-document

TikTok's biggest artit freaks out, attacks mild art critic

TikTok Star Devon Rodriguez Is Now the Most Famous Artist in the World. But What About His Work?

The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned

Art in the After-Culture

dis — Spooky Castle

How Mass Protests Fall Apart | Ash Sarkar Meets Vincent Bevins

My guest is a 22 year old from the Middle East. She has spent the last few years immersed in political meme culture and radical content online.

Film01: Histoire(s) de l’internet is a work of cinema from writer Angelicism01, whose often scathing online presence played a central role in the so-called vibe shift of 2021. Running 3+ hours, Film01 premiered this past June in NYC at Anthology Film Archives. It is composed entirely of other people’s footage—some submitted, most scraped from the internet—to tell a story of imminent extinction and an infinite drive to transmit oneself through the network. It also folds in its own audience, incorporating, with each new cut, the reception and mediation of the previous. Film01 has now been screened 5 times in as many iterations, most recently at Berlin’s Babylon Kino in October. On this episode, New Models speaks to Film01’s producer, Lola Jusidman and co-producer, Mateo Demarigny.

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For more: IG @angelicismfilm01official

See also: NM Special Report: NY Scene Update w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waif material, David Yoakum (June 2023)

Music this episode: intro - Psion, “Airships” (1998); outro - AgonyOST, “Feels Like Florence” (2023)

Welcome to StateBook. A public option for social media.

Read the full essay:

https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/platform-wars-part-4-a-public-option

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Pisacane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-scale_(personality_test)

The F Scale: Final form

https://www.gamescenes.org/2023/10/event-the-seashore-of-endless-worlds-november-1-19-2023-geneva-switzerland.html

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz

https://spawning.substack.com/p/kudurru

Pure Pwnage finale

Few if any are better, more observant chroniclers of post-millennial, culture-sector life than the NYC-based author Natasha Stagg. On this episode, she joins New Models to discuss her new book of collected writing, Artless: Stories 2019-2023, which leads readers through the rubble of early 21st-century creative industries and the new types of spaces and subjects emergent in their wake. Artless follows Stagg’s 2019 book Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 and her 2016 novel, Surveys (all Semiotext[e]).

“What I’ve been thinking about, anyway, is work and what that has become, for everyone. What it was like, when it was easier, to separate jobs from opportunity, opportunity from experience. I’m thinking about writing as work and as entertainment and as a tool or a calling card. I write a lot of emails. I bet I have written hundreds of millions of emails. I would rather write books, but those are far less in demand.” — Natasha Stagg, excerpt from the foreword to Artless: Stories 2019-2023

For more: Subscribe to Natasha's Substack, Selling Out

Launch of Artless: Stories 2019 - 2023 (in convo w/ Miranda July), Wednesday, October 25th, 7PM @ McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton St, NYC (SOLD OUT)

Natasha Stagg Presents @ Metrograph (NYC, Saturday, October 28th, 2:45PM (New York, New York) and 5PM (Welcome to the Dollhouse), book signing in between

Natasha Stagg and Sasha Frere-Jones, Thursday November 2, 7PM @ Mast Books, 72 Avenue A, NYC

If you’re just joining us, check out The Platform Wars part 1 & part 2.

https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/platform-wars-part-3-tiktok-and-geopolitics

https://www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-3-87023598

Having launched his popular blog ribbonfarm.com in 2007 (now also via Substack), Venkatesh Rao writes big-picture tech- and media-aware analysis that’s an indispensable orientation tool for anyone modeling how our perception of the world is changing. While we initially invited Rao to speak with New Models about a growing sense of narrative entropy (what he calls “unnaratability”) and reflections on his experimental research program, Summer of Protocols, we ended up mostly discussing crypto, particularly Ethereum, and what its persistence beyond the 2023 downturn reveals about how the most powerful and deep pocketed entities are envisioning the future.

For more: 

X: @vgr

Summer of Protocols

Ribbonfarm (blog) & Ribbonfarm Studio (Substack)

NM70 Explicit Bonus Track w/ experimental pop musician Dorian Electra and cultural theorist Shumon Basar Electra on sex, kink, fame, and desire. Dorian's 3rd album, Fanfare is out 6 Oct 2023. 

For more:

@dorianelectra on IG, X, YouTube & @dorianelectraofficial on TikTok

@shumonbasar on IG, X & Core + Lore a film by Shumon Basar & Y7 (Hannah Cobb & Declan Colquitt

Dianna visits the podcasts to discuss trend cycles, faith, mythology and artistic practice. Hear about her upcoming performances:

diannaluciadragonetti.substack.com/

Send professional inquiries:

info-[at]-saras.world