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NM Greenroom | VICE magazine’s Ben Ditto & Kevin Lee Kharas (2026)
“Anyone that claims they understand the world — this immediately marks them out as a fraud.” — Kevin Lee Kharas
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NM 93 | Daniël de Zeeuw & Sal Hagen on the post-discursive web (2026)
We’re joined by media scholars Daniël de Zeeuw & Sal Hagen, who have been closely tracking the weirder end of the internet for over a decade—their…
1:03:32
NM Content Today: Quo Vadis, Looksmaxxer (2026)
According to Claude, there have been some 5000 substantive pieces since the start of 2026 published on looksmaxxing and its main protagonist…
55:59
NM 92 | Scholar Peli Grietzer updates his 2017 “Theory of Vibe” (2026)
We speak often in the New Model sphere about scanning and sensing rather than reading—communication through vibes. Peli Grietzer is a comparative…
51:30
NM Greenroom | Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff on New Theater Hollywood (2026)
Back in Berlin to show their new film work “The End of Theater” at Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, artists Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff drop by New Models…
51:17
NM Reads | Gideon Jacobs, “MAGA as Fan Fiction,” LA Review of Books (2026)
Gideon Jacobs returns to NM with his third essay in a trilogy for the LA Review of Books that tracks, in real-time, the American political machine’s…
25:56
NM Dispatch | America Diaries Winter 2026 (Lil Internet)
A psychedelic meditation by Lil Internet on what it means to live among multiple competing intelligences—and the urgent need to develop new rituals for…
1:11:17
NM Talkcore | Jay Springett on “Slop Machines of Loving Grace” (2025)
You’ve heard us reference the work of Jay Springett (aka @thejaymo) on nearly every pod this year — so with his new book Slop Machines of Loving Grace…
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NM Reads | Neo-Orality 2 (Jacqueline Fendt)
Listen now | For Part 2 of this “Neo-Orality” edition of NM Reads, Lil Internet reads excerpts from Jacqueline Fendt, “Beyond Wicked: Vibocratic…
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