Joshua Citarella

Jan 29 2025 97 ep. 49 mins 212
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Artist and internet culture writer. https://joshuacitarella.substack.com/ https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella https://www.youtube.com/@doomscrollpodcast Follow: @joshuacitarella

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Deep Research: The Gateway Tapes Pt 1

Jan 29 2025 65 mins  
Joshua Citarella begins his deep dive into the history and teachings of the Monroe Institute ("the worlds premiere organization for studying human consciousness"), starting with an expert interview with artist and acoustics expert Carmelo Pampillonio. This mini series is a collaboration with Otherworld. This is the first part of a three part series. Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 c

Doomscroll 13: Dasha Nekrasova

Jan 25 2025 53 mins  
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?

Against Platforms w/ Mike Pepi

Jan 08 2025 48 mins  
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 new institutionalist critique of emerging technologies and platforms.

Doomscroll 12: Daniel Keller

Dec 30 2024 44 mins  
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 21st century.

Doomscroll 11: Jack Wagner

Dec 22 2024 40 mins  
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. At the end we pay homage to one of the greatest memes ever mad

Doomscroll 10: Caleb Cain (aka Faraday Speaks)

Dec 11 2024 102 mins  
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 piece titled “The Making of a YouTube Radical”. In 2020,

Doomscroll 09: Amber A'Lee Frost

Dec 07 2024 78 mins  
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 labor real? What does it mean for American workers?

Doomscroll 08: Matty Healy

Nov 29 2024 152 mins  
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 across various decades. Fisher links these cultural moments t

Doomscroll 07: Yung Chomsky

Nov 24 2024 89 mins  
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 connections between weight lifting and far right politics. This

Doomscroll 06: Peter James Fowler

Nov 17 2024 82 mins  
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.