Preview | NM Talkcore: Jay Springett on "Slop Machines of Loving Grace" (2025)

About this episode

Jay Springett discusses themes from his upcoming book 'Slop Machines of Loving Grace' in this preview episode.

This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe: https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com You’ve heard us reference the work of Jay Springett (aka @thejaymo) on nearly every pod this year — so with his new book Slop Machines of Loving Grace near completion, we invited Jay on the show to chat through some of its themes. The book takes 2008 as a breaking point, a moment where the late-20th century financial system imploded and, in its place, society was given a new operating system: one optimized for exocapitalism and shaped by “smartness,” a forceful symbiosis of finance and software. On the ep, we discuss the rise of American “code-spaces” (e.g., apps, platforms, etc) and hyper-fragmented “data subjects” taking the place of the modern “individual.” "What happens,” Lil Internet asks, “when AI agents become not just tools but inhabitants of the world of human culture? Chat with an Oct 2025 draft Jay’s book’s here: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68d150abe8008191b27383697808eed9-slop-machines Follow/subscribe/listen to more of Jay’s work at https://thejaymo.net See also: NM85 | Jay Springett on “Worlds” as Medium (2024)

People in this episode

Host: New Models

Guest: Jay Springett

Topics covered

• exocapitalism
• AI agents
• data subjects
• financial systems
• smartness
• code-spaces

Keywords

• Jay Springett
• Slop Machines of Loving Grace
• exocapitalism
• AI
• data subjects
• financial systems
• smartness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ChatGPT, thejaymo.net

Books & works: Slop Machines of Loving Grace

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