Three Posts With Joshua Citarella

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Joshua Citarella is an artist, internet culture researcher, and content creator. You might know him from his photography and art pieces which have been featured in galleries around the world, from his Twitch streams where he talks about following very-online diet and exercise routines, or his keen and perceptive writing on internet culture and politics. Josh is also a part of Do Not Research, a decentralized arts/research institution specializing in internet culture.

AIDAN: For people who don't know about Do Not Research, what is it and where is it at right now? And you know, like, how does it feel to have this web that you have helped weave with other people and see all the different things spinning off of it?

JOSH: Yeah, over 200 other people now. It is an arts organization that started in the Discord attached to my podcast and books and a variety of other materials that I've been publishing. And there was a reading group that started in the summer of 2020 that then formed new coll…