Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella

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Briahna Joy Gray: Democrats Can’t Do Anything | Doomscroll Mar 10, 2025

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My guest is Briahna Joy Gray, a lawyer, journalist and political commentator. She is the host of the Bad Faith podcast.

Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-joy-122574952

We discuss the crisis of the Democratic party, online fact checkers vs. freedom of speech on social media, the mixed politics of populism and third parties in the USA.

https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

Quinn Slobodian: What is Neoliberalism? | Doomscroll Feb 24, 2025

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My guest is Quinn Slobodian, a professor of international history at Boston University. He is the author of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism".

Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-quinn-121413020

Neoliberalism is the most misused word in today's political discourse. In this episode we discuss the origins of the ideological movement. What is neoliberalism? When did it begin? How did it transform global politics

https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

Will Menaker: The End of the Left + Liberal Alliance | Doomscroll Feb 10, 2025

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My guest is Will Menaker, a host of the ‪Chapo Trap House‬ podcast.

Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-will-120559506

We discuss the failures of working within the Democratic Party, the role of alternative media and a certain state in a certain part of the world. Can humor help us find truth within the online landscape?

https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

Dasha Nekrasova: Post-politics, Woke and Trump 2.0 | Doomscroll Jan 27, 2025

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My guest is Dasha Nekrasova, an actor, director and host of the Red Scare podcast.

Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-dasha-119590417

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?

https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

Daniel Keller: Politics in the 21st Century | Doomscroll Jan 02, 2025

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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.

https://www.patreon.com/c/joshuacitarella

Jack Wagner: Do Your Own Research | Doomscroll Dec 26, 2024

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My guest is Jack Wagner, a writer & director, host of the Otherworld podcast and one of my all time favorite posters.

https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

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 made.

Faraday Speaks: Pipelines and Rabbit Holes | Doomscroll Dec 18, 2024

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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, he was featured again by the New York Times in the popular Rabbit Hole podcast. Today, he joins us to tell his side of the story.

https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

Amber A’Lee Frost: Vulgarity and the Dirtbag Left | Doomscroll Dec 11, 2024

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My guest is Amber A'Lee Frost, a writer, organizer, co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast and the author of Dirtbag (2023).

https://www.patreon.com/c/joshuacitarella

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?

Matty Healy: Pop Culture in the 21st Century | Doomscroll Dec 04, 2024

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My guest is musician Matty Healy of The 1975. He joins me to discuss internet culture and the strange aesthetics of our time.

https://www.patreon.com/c/joshuacitarella

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 to larger economic shifts that are often felt but rarely seen.

Yung Chomsky: Weight Lifting and Aesthetics | Doomscroll Nov 27, 2024

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Yung Chomsky is the producer of the TrueAnon podcast, creator of the mobile app Phomo, and a natural athlete with 16 years of experience.

https://www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

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 is the lifting episode. We’re all gonna make it.

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