It’s finally here — the perfect gift for your Maoist-Third Worldist nephew, doomsday prepper divorced dad or Q Anon yoga mom. For the past year, I’ve been tirelessly designing and play-testing a new MORPG (multi-player offline role playing game).
Class Fantasy is an action RPG card game that pairs fantas...
2024-04-10 12:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Get the books:
Vincent Bevins: If We Burn, 2023
Naomi Klein: Doppleganger, 2023
Links:
My guest is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and an early investor in FaceBook. We discuss his interest in the downtown Manhattan literary scene and the role of philanthropy in the 21st century.
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https://twitter.com/peterthiel
https://twitter.com/foundersfund
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2024-04-01 10:30:01 +0000 UTC
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https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1769805936619606112
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/13/is-tiktok-banned-what-to-know/72957680007/
2024-03-19 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes unpack historical resonances between territory, abstraction and financialization.
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/sden...
2024-03-13 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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https://www.instagram.com/guiltgroupe/
Exhibitions:
https://www.somersethouse.o...
get the book: https://darkforest.metalabel.com/dfc
2024-02-23 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’ve managed to find your way here, you are likely familiar with the Dark Forest Theory of the Internet. You may not yet know it by name but you know it by vibe. Dark Forests are online gathering spaces that are non-indexed, non-optimized and hidden from public view. They are typically hosted in Discords, Telegram, WhatsApp Groups, and other private channels where conversation...
2024-02-21 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is a 20 year old Marxist. At age 12, he began exploring niche circles of Tumblr, YouTube and Wikipedia.
2024-02-13 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI originally gave a version of this talk to the MA Contemporary Art Practice Program at the Royal College of Art in 2021. I’ve adapted some sect...
2024-02-07 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
@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__
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2024-02-01 11:30:00 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf
CIA full report on Brain Synchronization, Energy, Manifestation and the Holographic Universe
2024-01-24 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest ran a collaborative role-playing game that turned political meme accounts on Instagram into an MMO for fantasy nation-states.
2024-01-17 11:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
All the Wellness Products Americans Love to Buy are Sold on Both InfoWars and Goop VIII, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, 48 x 34"
This is the last artwork I made before I left my old studio in Ridgewood, Queens. It was probably a wise choice because having a giant table of alternative health products and medicines might contaminate my living space.
The title of these wo...
2024-01-09 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wishing you all a very happy 2024! This is our year and we’re all gonna make it (screenshot this).
I started Twitch streaming in 2020. A big part of this project has been sorting out the signal from noise amidst the chaos of extremely online culture. Many memes, posts and think pieces are dismissable content but so...
2024-01-02 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This summer I traveled to FWBfest in Idyllwild, CA to give a talk about extremely online politics. This is the best recorded summary of my research and work over the last few years. You can watch the full video here.
2023-12-27 14:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2023-12-19 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
People always ask me for book recommendations around this time of year. This December, I’m most excited for the debut book by Amber Frost: Dirtbag (2023).
In 2020, I left my teaching jobs at prestigious universities, like the School of Visual Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design, to pursue my own path outside of traditional institutions. Since then I’ve published a sy...
2023-12-08 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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/
2023-12-04 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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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:
2023-11-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJJ McCullough | Pushing on an open door
2023-11-21 12:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2023-11-15 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Tár (2022) directed by Todd Field
Social media has wreaked havoc on cultural institutions. Unfounded allegations pushed out a revered ...
2023-11-08 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to StateBook. A public option for social media.
Link to the essay:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-4-90689173
E-deology is an internet slang term used to describe complex ideological labels. These hyper-specific categories serve as a gamified form of identity play and niche personal branding in the chaotic landscape of online politics.
Libertarian Georgist Hoppeanism
Georgism is an economic philosophy that advocates for the privatization of property and the socialization of land...
2023-10-26 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Pisacane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-scale_(personality_test)
If you’re just joining us, check out The Platform Wars part 1 & part 2.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/platform-wars-3-87023598
2023-10-18 10:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to StateBook. A Public Option for Social Media.
Beginning these debates over ten years ago, I used to joke that the United States should nationalize FaceBook and make it a division of the Post Office. If this was ever truly an option in the past, it seems highly implausible now. But the underlying provocation rings true and is more necessary than ever.
So long as big monolithic platforms are privately owned and operated, lawmakers will perpetually operate ...
2023-10-11 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dianna visits the podcasts to discuss trend cycles, faith, mythology and artistic practice. Hear about her upcoming performances:
https://diannaluciadragonetti.substack.com/
Send professional inquiries:
info-[at]-saras.world
2023-10-02 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post