NM Reads: Dean Kissick's "Hello Darkness" (2021)
"HELLO DARKNESS" is an essay by New York-based writer DEAN KISSICK about the changing social media and media landscape of 2021. It is presented as part of "Shadowlands," Season 1 of Stolbun Institute....
29 Apr 202113min
EP 34: LET THERE BE LIGHT (The Cobra Snake)
Before there was Instagram, there was Mark Hunter, AKA, THE COBRA SNAKE, who made his name photographing the alt party scene of the ‘00s and relaying this coverage to his blog before people’s hangover...
1 Apr 20211h 17min
UNLOCKED // NM TopSoil Ep 61: GATE ANALYSIS (Feat. Andrew Russeth)
What creates VALUE in ART and what makes art actually valuable over time? Why are some images powerful while others, just expensive? Why did DAN buy a Twerky Pepe? On this ep, we speak with writer and...
17 Mars 20211h 29min
"NFT Dreams" by LIL INTERNET
As with Non Fungible Tokens themselves, the NFT hot-take economy—particularly when it comes to big-a Art—became a hysterical bubble of its own this winter. In his radio play excerpted from NM TopSoil ...
26 Feb 20219min
EP 33: IMAGINATION NATION (Richard Beck)
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, RICHARD BECK, author of "We Believe the Children: a Moral Panic in the 1980s "(Public Affairs, 2015) and a senior writer at N+1, spoke to New Models about soc...
18 Feb 20211h 15min
EP 32: CLICK CLICK BOOM (Tim Hwang)
Dubbed the “busiest man on the internet,” polymath TIM HWANG, currently a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown Univ., visits the NM pod to discuss hi...
31 Dec 202048min
NM Special Report: UNCANNY RALLY (S.U.S.)
From the depths of the NEW MODELS DISCORD comes a new glossary for ASTROTURFING and related forms of soft-nonlinear warfare, collectively authored by members of an emergent group called Shifting Uncer...
11 Dec 202057min
NM Reads: Reinaldo Laddaga's "A Coney Island of the Virus" (2020)
"A CONEY ISLAND OF THE VIRUS: COVID-19 IN NEW YORK" is an essay by the New York-based, Argentinean writer REINALDO LADDAGA, excerpted from a book he is writing about Covid-19 & NYC. The essay tells of...
22 Sep 202023min
