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Mercury Retrograde, financial & social capital and the new internet with Emily Segal
🕑 Added 2021-06-12 02:22:58 +0000 UTCHey all!
Happy to be back! We ended up travelling to get vaccinated and took a short break from recording, but are now back in the saddle!
Thrilled this week to invite artist and author Emily Segal, whose debut auto-fictional novel “Mercury Retrograde” tells the story of a young artists attempt to reconcile the abstract landscape of overfunded startups and the art world, set in New York between Occupy and the Trump Presidency. We discuss what can be learned from the post-internet era as we stand at the precipice of a new internet, the tensions created by the meeting between financial and social capital, what the hell an artist is anyway now?? and Emily’s recent deep dive on funding new literature projects with web 3.
Read Mercury Retrograde: https://delugebooks.com/products/mercury-retrograde
Deluge Books: https://delugebooks.com/
$NOVEL on Mirror: https://emily.mirror.xyz/0AFENlMKv9amUC1OJIZY26udpISw_raXkoEcvelPvzg
Nemesis Global: https://nemesis.global/
Comments
Mat
urbit is certainly an interesting project!
Mat
that is an amazing reference we will tell Emily!!
coughsoda
perhaps a bit of a pedestrian reference, but Emily's description of her next novel reminds me a bit of a recent videogame i watched for a few hours when it came out, persona 5. it's also about high school students who discover acts of pedophilia amongst the faculty via psychedelic intervention
Sorry for making two posts, the Patreon interface is slowly driving me insane, but I feel compelled to bring up urbit as an interesting project to approach the whole dependence on discord and twitter -- after all, they're basically building a whole new internet around social interactions and more permanent identity. Honestly baffled they don't have integrations with mirror yet, and I hope a patreon clone is imminent. (As of a few weeks ago, there is at least some embyronic support for bitcoin payments.)
