

Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella
Joshua Citarella
Doomscroll explores online culture and politics in the 21st century. Joshua Citarella is an artist and internet culture writer.
https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/@doomscrollpodcast joshuacitarella.substack.com
https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/
https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella
https://www.youtube.com/@doomscrollpodcast joshuacitarella.substack.com
Episodes
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Nov 17, 2021 • 13min
"The Authoritarians"
One of greatest comment threads ever. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Nov 2, 2021 • 43min
Jreg on Politics and Fandom
Greg Guevara visits the pod to discuss radical ideologies, mental health, artistic expression and political speech.https://www.youtube.com/c/Jregoryhttps://twitter.com/mc_swmhttps://www.instagram.com/greg.guevara/https://www.patreon.com/jreg This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Oct 20, 2021 • 1h 7min
Taylor Lorenz on Gen Z and Social Media
Online public vs private spaces, web 2.5, platform capitalism, saving the children from unpaid internships, pre-crisis aesthetics, edgy teens, unironic conspiracies, shadowbanning and influencehttps://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz?s=20https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz/https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenzhttps://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Sep 30, 2021 • 28min
My Political Journey: G
My guest is a 22 year old anti-imperialist. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Sep 15, 2021 • 47min
Zeitgeist w/ Dorian Electra
Dorian visits the stream to investigate conspiracy theory & the federal reserve. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Sep 2, 2021 • 29min
My Political Journey: @zoe4revolution
My guest is a 20 year old communist. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Aug 17, 2021 • 42min
Xenofeminism w/ Helen Hester
Helen Hester is the author of Xenofeminism (2018). She is a professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the London School of Film, Media and Design.@ HelenHesterhttps://twitter.com/HelenHester?s=20 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Aug 1, 2021 • 1h 22min
After the End of History, 2019
Speaking with 3 Gen Z lefty meme posters during a live event at the New Museum in NYC. https://rhizome.org/events/after-the-end-of-history/Micro-lectures published to the Rhizome blog: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/oct/04/salutations-fellow-kids/https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/oct/17/communism-against-civilization-or-eco-fascism/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Jul 15, 2021 • 26min
Choose Your Future, 2021
Choose Your Future, 2021, is part of KW Digital: Open Secret, 16 July - 31 December.joshuacitarella.com/chooseyourfuture/
www.kw-berlin.de/en/open-secret/In 2021, I commissioned a group of artists and memers to write short wiki-style descriptions of fantastical future scenarios. Writers were instructed to copy/paste existing wikipedia entries and “play mad libs” with the nouns and dates. Drawing on movements from the past, these short stories recombine political history to anticipate long tail ideologies and factions that may soon emerge.Choose Your Future takes the hyperbolic imaginings of young people, raised on the internet, and puts their words directly into the mouths of content creators. In this way, the project emulates the signal amplification that occurs through social media, as radical takes move from the anonymous fringe into the verified mainstream. Is this the multi-faceted analysis of the Rand Corporation? Or is it a teenage meme poster who thinks it would be cool if these political keywords combined? I’m interested in the point where those spheres overlap.This project combines the creative efforts of some of the artists, memers and content creators that have most inspired me over the past few years. Texts by: Margo Bergamini, Nick Bird, @ manletpill, David Noel, Abbey Pusz, D.Z. Rowan and Joshua Citarella. Read by: Caroline Busta, Mat Dryhurst, A.M. Gittlitz, Daniel Keller, Anna Khachiyan, Holly Herndon, Lil' Internet, Jack Wagner and Joshua Citarella.---Open Secret is a six-month long online program exploring the role of the hidden in our apparently “open” society. Information technologies are supposed to increase our access to knowledge, making the world more legible, while undermining ignorance and superstition. But sometimes the feeling prevails that we have entered a new dark age of black boxes, projections, and paranoia. Techno-culture is obsessed with the unseen, the inaccessible, the known-unknown. Open Secret pursues things that are obscured–through artistic commissions, a suite of essays by leading thinkers, and an intensive public program dedicated to critical reappraisal of the digital infrastructures that organize civic life. With new contributions released on a monthly basis, the Open Secret website will bring together art, technology, politics, and new patterns of exchange.Curators: Nadim Samman, curator digital sphere, in collaboration with Katja Zeidler, head of education & mediation This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe

Jul 8, 2021 • 1h 59min
Do Not Research: Xenoestrogens
Holly, Davidy & Josh take a deep dive into milk wars, seed oils, plastics and the taint. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshuacitarella.substack.com/subscribe


