Get the book: https://darkforest.metalabel.com/dfa2

Yancey and I visit Montez Press Radio in downtown NYC to discuss The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.

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https://www.instagram.com/montezpressradio

https://www.instagram.com/ystrickler

https://twitter.com/ystrickler

https://www.instagram.com/metalabel__/

https://twitter.com/metalabel_

Austin Robey, co-founder of Metalabel, joins me to discuss alternative models for the internet. We explore “Ampled”, a cooperative platform for musicians that existed from 2018-2023 and theorize about the next generation of platforms.

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https://www.instagram.com/michaelcoors/

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https://www.instagram.com/metalabel__/

Read:

https://austinrobey.xyz/

Get the game: https://joshuacitarella.metalabel.com/class-fantasy

Class Fantasy is an action RPG card game that pairs fantasy character classes with political ideologies. Your goal is to defeat other players in battle and achieve utopia.

Inspired by games like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and World of Warcraft, Class Fantasy explores the essential role playing and world building process that links the game space and the real world.

Finally, a game that unites the whole political spectrum (and family) by forcing them into irreconcilable conflict.

Exploring the political arc of the social media decade.

Get the books:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/if-we-burn/9781541788985/?lens=publicaffairs

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger

Links:

https://youtu.be/6FCYcfiVqYQ

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/05/leftwing-vulkan-group-claim-responsibility-tesla-factory-pylon-arson-attack-berlin

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-anarcho-liberal/

https://www.youtube.com/live/cI7iyo2wv18?si=ilEl4ylOge0bJ8kf

Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes unpack historical resonances between territory, abstraction and financialization.

Links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/arts/design/simon-denny-art-computers-gaming-review-musk-grimes.html

https://www.instagram.com/sden023/

https://www.instagram.com/juliaxgulia/

https://www.instagram.com/joshuacitarella/

https://www.instagram.com/dunkunsthalle/

https://www.instagram.com/petzelgallery/

https://www.instagram.com/sorry_press/

https://www.sorry-press.com/landscapes

https://dunkunsthalle.substack.com/p/simon-denny-exhibition-read-write

https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/simon-denny5

https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/multi-user-dungeon-mud

Artist Paige K.B. calls into the stream to discuss three major exhibitions: “Cute” at Somerset House in London, “Poetics of Encryption” at KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, and Simon Denny’s shows in New York.

Follow:

https://www.instagram.com/guiltgroupe/

Exhibitions:

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/cute

https://poeticsofencryption.kw-berlin.de/src/html/Exibition.html

https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/simon-denny5

https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/multi-user-dungeon-mud

https://dunkunsthalle.substack.com/p/simon-denny-exhibition-read-write

My guest is a 20 year old Marxist. At age 12, he began exploring niche circles of Tumblr, YouTube and Wikipedia.

@dnlklr joins me to discuss the For-You-Pagification of the internet, hyper polarization online, network states, AI vs. climate and building new institutions.

https://twitter.com/DnlKlr


https://www.instagram.com/dnlklr

https://twitter.com/__vaporware__

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