Mercury Retrograde, financial & social capital and the new internet with Emily Segal

Hey 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-retrogradeDeluge Books: https://delugebooks.com/ $NOVEL on Mirror: https://emily.mirror.xyz/0AFENlMKv9amUC1OJIZY26udpISw_raXkoEcvelPvzg Nemesis Global: https://nemesis.global/