This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Dasha Nekrasova. We discuss Trump’s historic victory, counter elites, the class interest of precarious freelancers and the state of creative industries today.
2025-01-30 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Dasha Nekrasova, an actor, director and host of the Red Scare podcast. We discuss Trump’s historic win, Luigi Mangione and Dasha's political journey from a Bernie Sander’s supporter in 2016 to a Trump voter in 2024. What happens to political consensus when all narratives have now become alternative?
2025-01-27 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. Episode #14 with guest Will Menaker is out today. As we enter this new and historic era of Trump 2.0, we’re releasing a collection of episodes to debrief on the state of American politics.
Doomscroll is ...
2025-01-22 22:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Will Menaker. We discuss “based populism”, the power of comedy in politics, and the realignment of counter-culture in America.
You can watch the public podcast episode on YouTube 2025-01-22 19:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike Pepi is the author of “Against Platforms”, a bold critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future. He is also one of my best friends and someone I have been in conversation with for over a decade.
In this episode, we discuss our shared history in working to develop a
These are confusing times. Familiar divisions between left and right fail to map onto today’s political landscape. The culture war has absorbed all aspects of media. Elon Musk is setting world records in Diablo IV (completing Pit level 150 in 1 minute, 56 seconds!) and soon he promises to speed clear the United States discr...
2025-01-12 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Doomscroll is back. Episode #13 with guest Dasha Nekrasova is out now. As we enter this new and historic era of Trump 2.0, we’re releasing a collection of episodes to debrief on the state of American politics and culture.
This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Dasha Nekrasova. We discuss Trump’s historic victory, counter elites, the class interest of precarious freelancers and the state of creative industries today.
My guest is Daniel Keller, an artist whose work and research has inspired me for over a decade. We discuss tech monopolies and their cozy relationship to state power, the artificial intelligence race, the chips war, network states and geopolitical competition between the US and China. These are the defining conflicts of the 2...
2025-01-02 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
and the most important story you didn't hear about this year.
Welcome back to the Sunday edition of Josh’s newsletter. This usually involves me getting zooted out of my mind on coffee and nicotine while desperately pulling at conspiratorial threads across niche internet ideologies. Good news, that’s exactly what we...
2024-12-29 14:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Jack Wagner, a writer & director, host of the Otherworld podcast and one of my all time favorite posters. We discuss his experience of creative life on the internet and explore the many esoteric belief systems that have grown out of social media. We see a trend of increasing irrationality in a complex world. A...
2024-12-26 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTrueAnon #425: The Blue Light Killer. I recently sat down with my favorite internet sleuths for a 3 hour episode diving deep into Luigi Mangione’s political ideology. We explore his po...
2024-12-19 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Caleb Cain or Faraday Speaks as he is known online. In 2019, Caleb Cain posted a video on YouTube called “My Descent into the Alt-Right Pipeline”. In the video, he described his first person experience of online radicalization. It quickly went viral. Soon after, Cain was profiled in The New York Times in a pie...
2024-12-18 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDoomscroll is now available in audio form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and everywhere else. Audio epi...
2024-12-12 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Amber A'Lee Frost, a writer, organizer, co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast and the author of Dirtbag (2023). We discuss today's dysfunctional left, elite overproduction, online political subcultures and the emergence of “youth” as a counter-cultural and consumer demographic. Is the New Right support for l...
2024-12-11 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDoomscroll is now available in audio form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and everywhere else. Audio epi...
2024-12-08 19:58:19 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is musician Matty Healy of The 1975. He joins me to discuss internet culture and the strange aesthetics of our time. We explore the inspirations behind his work, including the writing of cultural theorist Mark Fisher. Matty describes the "slow cancellation of the future" by comparing distinct styles of pop music acro...
2024-12-04 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we are looking into a popular narrative that has recently emerged online and in legacy news outlets. If we are going to base our analysis of the election results on the influence of alt-media, we should be clear about what those internet subcultures are and be fully aware of their political goals.
Doom...
2024-12-01 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Yung Chomsky is the producer of the TrueAnon podcast, creator of the mobile app Phomo, and a natural athlete with 16 years of experience. We discuss his personal journey of learning to lift online while exploring exercise subcultures via forums and message boards. We sort the facts from fictions and discuss the tenuous connec...
2024-11-27 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Doomscroll. This week, my guest is a dangerous political extremist who is a legitimate threat to the United States government. We discuss universal policies that have a broad appeal and overwhelming support from the public.
Your contribution helps me to keep doing this work and to make ne...
2024-11-26 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is comedian Peter James Fowler. He joins me to discuss his political meme account that he ran at age 11. I’ve spent the last few years interviewing young people who make radical posts online. Peter shares his journey from growing up in evangelical Christianity, to new atheism, and from Trump to Bernie.
2024-11-20 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. This is episode #12 with artist Daniel Keller. In the last few weeks we’ve seen an historic shift in American politics and culture. This conversation might help us to zoom out and see the larger t...
2024-11-19 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is artist and geographer Trevor Paglen. His groundbreaking work links new technological developments to larger political issues that are often secret or unseen. We discuss the emerging paradigm of "psyops capitalism", the history of the CIA's MK Ultra psychological operations and how magic shapes our perception of re...
2024-11-13 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. I’m excited to announce episode #11 with Jack Wagner. Today we’re revisiting the classics and paying homage to the greatest meme ever made.
There’s been a lot of talk in the past wee...
2024-11-12 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is JJ McCullough a YouTuber who was previously a TV political commentator and columnist at the Washington Post. We discuss generational shifts from the political left to right, explore the state of alternative media and debate the origins of right-wing populism. While we disagree on some core issues, we always gra...
2024-11-06 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Caleb Cain or Faraday Speaks as he is known online. Episode #10 is out now. This is an important conversation. I hope you will give it the time and consideration it deserves.
This show covers a wide array of topics, ...
2024-11-05 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Jreg or Greg Guevara as he is known offline. Jreg is a popular YouTube creator who explores online radical politics. He joins me to discuss our shared fascination with incredibly niche ideologies that only exist online. We explore social atomization as a political project and agree that taking the friend pill...
2024-10-30 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. Episode #09 with guest Amber A’Lee Frost is out now. I know there’s been a lot of anticipation for this video (yes, I am reading the comments on YouTube lol). This episode is a comprehensiv...
2024-10-29 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of 'Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class'. We discuss the origin of trauma studies, self branding on social media and the ideology of the professional class. Liu has an unwavering commitment to histori...
2024-10-23 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. I’m excited to announce episode #08 with guest Matty Healy. In the past few years, this project has grown from a niche discussion between artists and creatives, into a public forum for new id...
2024-10-22 21:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
