Joshua Citarella is a New York City-based artist and internet culture researcher who has spent the last few years diving into zoomer politics on platforms like Instagram and Discord. Joshua is also the director of “Do Not Research", an arts organization that started as a Discord server and now publishes writing, visual art, and more. He recently put out a great piece titled “Politigram & the Post-left” that explores the radical politics of Gen Z’s online memetic subcultures— you can read for free on Substack or purchase a paperback copy. Season 3 of his podcast is available everywhere. Lucky for us, Joshua is here to tell us what he’s been into.
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Artist Rachel Rossin introduced me to this anime series from 1998. Serial Experiments Lain is an early cyberpunk mystery (that predates and heavily influences The Matrix) where the online and offline worlds blur in strange and unexpected ways. The show has some really beautiful art direction and points at today’s “extremely-online” social alienation with incredible foresight.