Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella

My guest ran a collaborative role-playing game that turned political meme accounts on Instagram into an MMO for fantasy nation-states.

Her new book is out now from MacMillan Press:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250269621/dirtbag

Amber A'Lee Frost is a writer and co-host of Chapo Trap House. Find her writing in Jacobin Magazine, Catalyst, Damage Magazine, The Baffler, American Affairs and many others.

IG: https://instagram.com/amberaleefrost

Philosopher of technology, Benjamin Bratton, joins me to discuss AI and planetary scale computation. Read his work and learn more about Antikythera in the links below:

twitter.com/bratton
antikythera.org/
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262029575/the-stack/
www.versobooks.com/products/2749-t…nge-of-the-real
Trust: Inhumanism Rising - Benjamin Bratton
mitpress.mit.edu/9781913029999/ma…on-is-not-final/

Philosopher of technology, Benjamin Bratton, joins me to discuss AI, terraforming, geopolitics and planetary scale computation. Read his work and learn more about Antikythera in the links below:

https://twitter.com/bratton

https://antikythera.org/

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262029575/the-stack/

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2749-the-revenge-of-the-real

Inhumanism Rising - Benjamin Bratton

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913029999/machine-decision-is-not-final/

https://autocatallaxy.com/

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.

Welcome to StateBook. A public option for social media.

Link to the essay:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-4-90689173 

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

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

https://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

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

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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

https://youtu.be/sTBC4AQ67-M?si=UTICgD78fXWgFAt1