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Elizabeth MeLampy: Forget the Camel 39:33

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"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for the weekend. And during the roundup, these snakes are kept in a pit and then, one by one, beheaded and skinned in front of in front of audiences." - Elizabeth MeLampy Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer dedicated to animal rights and protection, and her passion for this work shines through in her latest book, Forget the Camel, the Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human . To research the book, Elizabeth traveled across the country, immersing herself in a wide range of animal festivals — from the Iditarod dog sled race to the rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. Elizabeth examines these festivals as revealing microcosms of our broader relationship with animals. Whether it's rattlesnake hunts, frog-jumping contests, ostrich races, or groundhog celebrations, these events reflect the ways humans use animals to express cultural identity, community pride, and historical traditions. Yet beneath the pageantry and excitement lies a deeper question: Is our fascination with these spectacles worth the toll it takes on the animals involved? With compassion and insight, Elizabeth invites readers to consider whether there’s a more ethical and empathetic way to honor our stories — one that respects both animals and the traditions they inspire. Please listen, share and read, Forget the Camel. It will be released on April 8th, 2025. https://apollopublishers.com/index.php/forget-the-camel/…

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Locust Radio is Locust Review’s monthly podcast on the weird, the political, and where they intersect in fiction, art, poetry and creativity. Hosted by editors Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Locust Radio features discussions of the radical weird, history and current events, interviews with artists, writers, and musicians, and readings of conceptual art, poetry and fiction. Read more at locustreview.com. To get bonus content and subscribe to Locust Review, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/locustreview

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Episode 29 - Dead Bees on Hot Cement 48:29

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In this episode of Locust Radio , Adam Turl interviews R. Faze, author of the My Body series published in Locust Review . This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with Locust members and collaborators on contemporary artistic strategies. R. Faze’s My Body series in Locust Review : R. Faze, “I Live an Hour from My Body,” Locust Review 4 (2021) R. Faze, “My Body Got a New Job,” Locust Review 5 (2021) R. Faze, “My Body Planned Something,” Locust Review 6 (2021) R. Faze, “My Body, Interrogated,” Locust Review 7 (2022) R. Faze, “My Body’s Long Term Plan,” Locust Review 8 (2022) R. Faze, “My By Body’s Revenge Plan,” Locust Review 9 (2022) R. Faze, “My Body Found a Portal to Another Dimension,” Locust Review 10 (2023) R. Faze, “My Body’s Claims, Verified,” Locust Review 11 (2024) Some other writers, artists, texts and artworks discussed: Mikhail Bahktin, Rabelais and His World (1984); Bertolt Brecht; Raymond Chandler ; Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working-Class (2010); Rene Descartes ; W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903); Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) ; Karl Marx, The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts (1844) ; Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (1993) ; Pablo Picasso and Cubism ; Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson” (1839); Francois Rabalais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (1564); Don Siegal, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Sister Wife Sex Strike, “From the River to the Sea (2024); Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) Locust Radio hosts include Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl . Locust Radio is produced by Alexander Billet , Adam Turl , and Omnia Sol . Opening music and sound elements by Omnia Sol and Adam Turl .…

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Ep. 28 - Anupam Roy + Irrealist Expressionism 1:35:17

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In episode 28 of Locust Radio , Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropocene. Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl . Producers include Alexander Billet , Omnia Sol , and Adam Turl . Related texts and topics: B.R. Ambedkar , see also B.R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste (1936) (pdf) ; James Baldwin (writer/author) ; Geroges Bataille, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939 (pdf) ; The Bengal Famine (1943) ; Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936) ; John Berger (artist and critic) , see also Ways of Seeing (video) and Ways of Seeing (1972) (book) ; Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (artist) ; Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist) ; Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024) ; Bedatri D. Choudhury, “The Artist Who Sketched a Famine in India,” Hyperallergic (April 30, 2018) ; Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation ; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022) ; Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) ; Antonio Gramsci ; Institutional Critique (art ); Marshall McLuhan (philosopher); Fred Morton (author); Pier Paolo Pasolini (poet and filmmaker) ; Platform Capitalism ; Lionello Puppi, Torment in Art (1991); Kohei Saito, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020) ; Shulka Sawant, “Cultivating a Taste for Nature: Tagore’s Landscape Paintings,” Economic and Political Weekly 52, no. 19 (2017): 57–63; Songs for Sabotage , New Museum Triennial (2018); J.W.M. Turner (artist) ; Adam Turl, Dead Paintings (2010-) ; Adam Turl interviews Anupam Roy, “We Are Broken Cogs in the Machine,” Red Wedge (May 7, 2019); Vincent Van Gogh (artist).…

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Ep. 27 - Escape from Capitalist Realism 1:02:41

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In episode 27 of Locust Radio , Adam Turl is joined by Tish Turl – writer, editor, artist, poet and member of the Locust collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a late capitalist cybernetic Anthropocene. Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl . Producers include Alexander Billet , Omnia Sol , and Adam Turl Related texts and topics: Mark Abel, Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time (2016); Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night (2019); Valerie Armstrong, Kevin Can F**k Himself (television series, 2021-2022`) ; Banksy (artist); Joseph Beuys (artist); Alexander Billet, Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis (2022) ; Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024) ; William Blake (artist and poet); The Carnivalesque ; Creepypasta ; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022) ; The Dogscape (creepypasta), Marcel Duchamp (artist); Fanfiction ; Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) ; Rupi Kaur (poet); Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility (2022); Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014); David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (2014 ); Prosimetrum ; Buzz Spector (artist); Chuck Tingle (writer); Tish Turl, “Sewerbot” (2019) ; Tish Turl, Sound, serialized novella in Locust Review (2020-); Tish Turl, Space Goths (2019) ; Tish Turl, Stink Ape Resurrection Primer , serialized prosimetrum in Locust Review (2021-); Tish Turl, Toilet Key Anthology, serialized poetry series in Locust Review (2019-2021); Tish Turl an Adam Turl, Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project (2021-) ; Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Museum (2019-) .…

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Episode 26 - Omnia Sol + the Cinematic Rave 1:52:38

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In episode 26 of Locust Radio , Adam Turl is joined by Omnia Sol – a comic, video, and sound artist in Chicago. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future book by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropocene. The featured closing music / sound art, “Overview” and “Wilhelmina,” are from Omnia Sol’s forthcoming vs. Megalon . Check out their bandcamp. Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl . Producers include Alexander Billet , Omnia Sol , and Adam Turl . Related texts and topics: Arte Povera ; Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936) ; Michael Betancourt, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice (2017) ; William Blake ; Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024) ; Stan Brakhage ; Bertolt Brecht - see also Brecht, “A Short Organum for the Theater” (1948) ; Cybernetic Culture Research Unit ; Mark Fisher, “Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction)” ; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022) ; Scott Dikkers, Jim’s Journal (comic by the co-founder of the Onion ) ; Dollar Art House ; Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) ; Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (2014) ; Mark Fisher, K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2019) ; Flicker Films ; Fully Automated Luxury (Gay) Space Communism ; Glitch Art ; Jean-Luc Godard ; Grand Upright Music, Ltd. vs. Warner Brothers Records (Biz Markie) (1991) ; William Hogarth ; Tamara Kneese, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (2023) ; Holly Lewis, “Toward AI Realism,” Spectre (2024) ; Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) ; Nam June Paik and TV Buddha ; Harvey Pekar (comic artist) ; Gregory Sholette, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2010) ; Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (2016) ; TOSAS (The Omnia Sol Art Show) ; Nat Turner ; Wildstyle and Style Wars (1983 film) ; YOVOZAL, “My Thoughts about AI and art,” YouTube video (2024)…

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Ep. 25 - Dead + Born Again Labor 1:20:13

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In this episode of Locust Radio we are flipping the script a bit. Instead of Tish, Laura and Adam interviewing someone, Tish and Adam are interviewed by Locust’s own Alexander Billet. They discuss, among other things, the Born Again Labor Museum , Adam and Tish’s ongoing sited conceptual art and installation project in southern Illinois. An edited and abridged transcript of the interview is available on Alexander Billet’s substack. A note: The interview was recorded the weekend before President Joe Biden quit the presidential race and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris. Artworks, artists, concepts, histories, and texts discussed in this episode: Jean Baudrillard, America (1989) ; Walter Benjamin, “Theses on History” (1940) ; John Berger, Ways of Seeing ( documentary and book ) (1972); Joseph Beuys ; Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024) ; Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Art (1998) ; Bertolt Brehct, “A Short Organum for the Theater” (1949) ; Bertolt Brecht, War Primer (1955) ; “Carbondale Starbucks Employees Vote to Unionize” (2022) ; Anna Casey, “Museum examines workers rights through art” (2022) ; Class and Social Struggle in southern Illinois ; Andrew Cooper ; Kallie Cox, “Born Again Labor Museum Offers Free Communist Manifestos ” (2022) ; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022) ; Mike Davis and Hal Rothman, The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (2002) ; Marcel Duchamp ; R. Faze, “I Live an Hour from My Body” (2021) ; Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2008) ; Eirc Gellman and Jarod Roll, The Gospel of the Working-Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America (2011) ; Francisco Goya, Disasters of War (1810-1820) ; Boris Groys, “The Weak Universalism” (2010) ; Jenny Holzer ; Barbara Kruger ; Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ (2005) ; Frances Madeson, “At the Born Again Labor Museum, Art is a Weapon for the Working Class” (2022) ; Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846) ; Karl Marx and Freidrick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848) ; Pablo PIcasso, Guernica (1937) ; Russian Cosmism ; Penelope Spheeris, The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) ; Stop Cop City ; Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours (1938) ; Adam Turl, “Against the Weak Avant-Garde” (2016) ; Adam Turl, “The Art Space as Epic Theater” (2015) ; Adam Turl, “Outsider Art is a Lie” (2019) and Adam Turl, “We’re All Outsiders Now” (2019) ; Tish Turl, “Class Revenge Fanfiction” (2022) ; Tish Turl, “Toilet Key Anthology” (2020) ; Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Museum ; Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Tracts ; The Wanderers/Peredvizkniki In other news, the call for submissions for Locust Review 12 is available on our website, check it out. Locust Radio is produced by Omnia Sol , Alexander Billet and Adam Turl . Its hosts include Adam Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl .…

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Ep. 24 - “We’ve Heard the Voice” 16:16

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In this episode of Locust Radio , we present a sound collage composed of people speaking in solidarity with Palestine at Carbondale (Illinois) City Council meetings – as well as the city’s attempts to silence them. Community members had been lobbying the council for a ceasefire resolution as one of the council members had pledged to support Palestinian rights when she was endorsed by the Southern Illinois chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (SIDSA). Instead, the council limited and then banned pro-Palestinian speech during public comments and had police remove Palestine-solidarity speakers from meetings. Collaged excerpts are not necessarily in chronological order. The title of this episode comes from Mayor Carolin Harvey’s statement, after silencing a Palestinian-American woman, that “we’ve heard THE voice.” Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl . It is produced by Omnia Sol , Alexander Billet , and Adam Turl . Music by Omnia Sol.…

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Ep. 23 - Escape from Normal Island 55:20

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In this episode of Locust Radio , we hear an audio essay, “Escape from Normal Island,” by Locust comrade and author Adam Marks . Marks provides an extended exegesis of “normal island,” otherwise known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island. Discussion includes: the very normal decade-long prelude to the 2024 UK elections; the possibility that the Conservative Party might cease to exist; the political gutting of Labour; managed decline; the far-right Reform Party; the “absolute boy” – the most normal person on Normal Island; the end of the UK’s extended sabbatical from history… Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl . It is produced by Omnia Sol , Adam Turl , and Alexander Billet . Music by Omnia So l.…

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Episode 22 - In The Year 2025 1:50:53

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In this episode of Locust Radio , we read excerpts from Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer (1950); listen to readings from Locust Review (2022-2023) — R. Faze’s “My Body’s Portal to Another Dimension;” Adam Marks’ “Rites of Obodena;” and Tish Turl’s “Immortality Beaver” ( Stink Ape Resurrection Primer ). We also listen to music from Pet Mosquito , Omnia Sol , and Shrvg . Laura, Tish, and Adam discuss Project 2025 , Agenda 47 , and other far-right plans to roll back democratic norms, target trans persons , and implement other reactionary-to-fascist policies in the United States. We also discuss how this is related to Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, and the general authoritarian trajectory of mainstream politics — as expressed in the prosecution of the Cop City organizers in Atlanta , increasing prison sentences for climate protesters, and the recent attempts to ban Palestine solidarity in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. To get the second — patron only — portion of the episode subscribe to Locust Review or join the Locust Review Patreon . Related readings, artworks, videos include: Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” (1940); Bertolt Brecht, War Primer (1955); Ali Abunimah and David Sheen, “Israeli Forces Shot Their Own Civilians, Kibbutz Survivor Says,” Electronic Intifada (October 16, 2023); Aime Ceasaire, Discourses on Colonialism (1950); Chauncey DeVega, “Trump Plans to Become Dictator — Denial will Not Save You,” Salon (September 7, 2023); Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921); Huthifa Fayyad, “Israel-Palestine War: What You Need to Know After 10 Days,” Middle East Eye (October 16, 2023); David Hearst, “The Nakba that Israel Has Started Will Backfire,” Middle East Eye (October 13, 2023); Naomi Klein, “In Gaza and Israel, Side with the Child over the Gun, The Guardian (October 11, 2023); Sabrine Kriebel, “Manufacturing Discontent: John Heartfield’s Mass Medium” New German Critique No 107 (Summer 2009), 53-88; Michelangelo, Moses (1513-1515); China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris (2016); TOI Staff, “Citing Israeli Example, Zelensky Says Ukraiainians ‘Need to Learn to Live with Conflict,’” The Times of Israel (August 28, 2023) ; Eran Torbiner, Matzpen, Anti-Zionist Israelis , video documentary about the Israeli Socialist Organization (2003); Leon Trotsky, “The German Catastrophe” (1933) ; Adam Turl, Dead Paintings (2011-present); Tish Turl, Stink Ape Resurrection Primer (ongoing in Locust Review ); Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project (2021-present). The Locust Radio theme is by Omnia Sol . Locust Radio is produced by Omnia Sol , Alexander Billet, Adam Turl, and Tish Turl . Locust Radio is hosted by Laura Fair-Schulz, Tish Turl, and Adam Turl .…

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Episode 21 - Mutation or Death 1:55:41

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Our first segment focuses on the history of socialism and science fiction (SF) in the early to mid-20th century United States, in particular the novels of George Allan England and the Popular Front SF of the Michelists in the 1930s and 1940s. Our second segment discusses the efforts of organizers in the Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity (CARE) to help trans and queer persons — targeted by the recent wave of oppressive legislation in states like Florida, Texas, and elsewhere — relocate to the relative safety of Carbondale, Illinois. Guests in this episode: Sean Cashbaugh, a postdoctoral lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and author of “A Paradoxical, Discrepant, and Mutant Marxism: The Emergence of Radical Science Fiction in the American Popular Front,” in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Cassandra Coffey, “a forty-year-old transfeminine nonbinary anarcho-communist redneck from Kentucky who has spent the past several years involved in queer liberation action and grassroots organization for causes that promote equity, emancipation, and challenge unjust authority.” Joe Shapiro, associate professor of English literature at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and author of The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel (University of Virginia Press, 2017). Mattie Stearns, “a nonbinary libertarian socialist J20 defendant, organizing in Carbondale for about ten years, and life-long resident of Carbondale. They are going to school to become a venture socialist. They are a general trouble-maker.” You can reach out to CARE at carbondalecare@proton.me or by messaging the CARE Facebook page . You can donate to CARE by making a donation on the Carbondale Rainbow Cafe website and writing “CARE” in the memo box. Or you can send a check by mail to Rainbow Cafe, 118 N. Illinois Avenue, Carbondale, IL 62901, and write “CARE” in the memo line. This episode’s opening reading is “Cogita’s Plan,” from the “Stink Ape Resurrection Primer” forthcoming in Locust Review 10. Music featured in this episode includes Melissa Carper , Mike Watt and the Secondmissingmen , and Omnia Sol . Locust Radio is a project of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective . It is hosted by Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl . It is produced by Alexander Billet , Omnia Sol , and Adam Turl .…

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CARE: Trans + Queer Relocation Solidarity in So. ILL 31:12

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In this Locust Radio “Special Report” — a preview of a segment from forthcoming episode twenty-one — we discuss organizing mutual aid and solidarity with trans and queer persons being forced to flee the increasingly draconian laws and regulations being put forward (and often passed) across the country. According to some studies, as many as 130,000 to 260,000 queer and trans people have already been displaced, with hundreds of thousands more considering relocation. We are releasing this segment early because of the urgency of the crisis and in the hope of building solidarity. The Carbondale Assembly on Radical Equity (or CARE) was formed in early 2023 in Carbondale, Illinois as a multi-tendency coalition of the different activists, organizers, and leftists in town. One of the things CARE has focused on is gender refugees relocating to Carbondale. Carbondale is, to borrow from mainstream terms, the bluest town at the southernmost tip of a blue state, jutting into increasingly hostile territory — a fact that has also led to the relocation from “red states” of gender affirming and reproductive care clinics to the city. On Sunday, July 2nd, Tish and Adam interviewed two CARE organizers to discuss what led to the forming of the assembly, the mutual aid it facilitates, how folks can start projects similar to CARE in other relatively safe areas, how folks can reach out to CARE, and how to support the work CARE is doing. We also touch base on the overall fight against the fascist onslaught against trans and queer persons. Our guests are Cassandra, “a forty-year-old transfeminine nonbinary anarcho-communist redneck from Kentucky who has spent the past several years involved in queer liberation action and grassroots organization for causes that promote equity, emancipation, and challenge unjust authority. Her pronouns are she/her and they/them”; and Mattie Stearns, “a nonbinary libertarian socialist j20 defendant, organizing in Carbondale for about ten years, and life-long resident of Carbondale. They are going to school to become a venture socialist. They are a general trouble-maker.” You can reach out to CARE at carbondalecare@proton.me or by messaging the CARE Facebook page . You can donate to CARE by making a donation on the Carbondale Rainbow Cafe website and writing “CARE” in the memo box. Or you can send a check by mail to Rainbow Cafe, 118 N. Illinois Avenue, Carbondale, IL 62901, and write “CARE” in the memo line. The closing music for this special report is “I Hate Illinois Nazis” by Pet Mosquito . Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl , Laura-Fair Schulz, and Adam Turl . It is produced by Omnia Sol and Alexander Billet. The opening theme is by Omnia Sol , with sound editing by Drew Franzblau. Locust Radio is a project of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective , which also publishes Locust Review and Imago . To support Locust Radio become a Locust patron .…

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Episode 20 - Shake the City 1:09:58

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In this episode, recorded downwind from an increasingly immolated Canada, we interview Alexander Billet , author of the book, Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis from 1968 Press (2022). We discuss music, the city, cultural fragmentation and the accelerated alienation of neoliberal culture, the “blue note,” Fred Ho’s concept of kreolization, the digital algorithm as capitalist standardization of music, sound as social control, music as a potential tool of social revolution, crackle and anachronism, acid communism, and getting “left behind” by the bourgeois rapture. Alexander Billet is a member of the Locust Collective who has written numerous articles and reviews for the Los Angeles Review of Books , Salvage, Jacobin , and the Radical Art Review . Readings in this episode: “Feet Firmly Planted on the Earth,” by the late Iranian poet and Marxist Ahmad Shamlou , from the collection, Aida, Tree, Dagger, Memory (1963), republished in English in Locust Review 9 (2022), translated by Saman Sepheri; a selection from Sound , a serialized novella by Tish Turl, published over several issues of Locust Review ( starting with Locust Review #2 in 2020 ). Music featured in this episode: Enchanters, “Missing Mountains” and “Unlikely Windows” from Post-Harvest ; Diamond Soul, “Screens,” from Maya-mi ; and Omnia Sol, “Security to Section 3,” from X-Mas Miracle 2 . Artists, art, musicians, books, and articles discussed in this episode: Theodor W. Adorno, “On Jazz,” Discourse Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1989-90), 45-69 ; Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” (1936) ; John Berger, Ways of Seeing (book, 1972) , and Ways of Seeing (BBC documentary, 1972) ; Alexander Billet, Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis (London: 1968 Press, 2022) ; Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working-Class (London: Repeater, 2021) ; Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures (London: Zero Books, 2014) ; Mark Fisher, “What is Hauntology?” Film Quarterly Vol 66. No. 1 (Fall 2012), 16-24 (University of California Press); Fred Ho (American jazz musician, composer and Marxist, 1957-2014) ; Henri Lefebve, The Right to the City (1996) ; Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) ; Tish Turl, Sound (novella serialized in Locust Review, 2020-present) ; Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Museum (conceptual art installation and project, 2019-present) Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz and Adam Turl . It is produced by Omnia Sol .…

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Episode 19 - The Monsters Are Coming 1:27:48

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In this episode of Locust Radio, Tish, Laura, and Adam discuss the theme of, and editorial for, Locust Review #10, “The Monsters Are Coming ,” the social construction of the monstrous, the idea of “solidarity with monsters,” differentiating between “their” monsters and “ours,” and how every accusation from the far-right is an admission of guilt. We also touch on the obliviousness of the British ruling-class and its recent “coronation” spectacle, and the looming midnight of the 21st century. In this episode, we also listen to music from Melissa Carper , Omnia Sol , and Kid Pixie . Please go to their bandcamps and buy their music! Adam also interviews Nick Shillingford from the Socialist News and Views podcast, and Luke Herron-Titus from Southern Illinois Democratic Socialists of America , for the third Irrealist Worker’s Survey (IWS). In the IWS interviews we discuss solidarity with AI, self-determination for Frankenstein’s monsters, working-class sabotage, conspiracy theory robots designed by Oxford University “scientists,” being liminal spaces, and more. Artists, authors, books, articles, and artworks discussed in this episode include: B. R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste (1936); William Blake, “Jerusalem” (1808); Kelly Budruweit, “Twilight’s Heteronormative Reversal of the Monstros: Utopia and the Gothic Design,” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts , 2016, Vol. 27, No. 2 (96) (2016), pp. 270- 289; Jeffrey Cohen, Monster Theory: Reading Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1996); Emory Douglas (visual artist, member of the historic Black Panther Party for Self-Defense); Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (Autonomedia, 2004); Brian P. Levack, “The Horrors of Witchcraft and Demonic Possession,” Social Research, Vol. 81, No. 4, Horrors (Winter 2014), pp. 921-939; Dave McNally, Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (Haymarket, 2011); China Miéville (author); Anupam Roy (visual artist); Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818); Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA, 1994); Enzo Traverso, Left Melancholia: Marxism, History and Memory (2016); Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Stink Ape Resurrection Primer (serialized in Locust Review #4 onwards, 2021-present); HG Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896); HG Wells, The War of the Worlds (1895-1897); and more… Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl . It is produced by Omnia Sol and Alexander Billet .…

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Episode 18 - The Machine of Reward and Discipline 1:42:20

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In this episode we listen to music from the Whistle Pigs, These Magnificent Tapeworms, The Flowers of Evil, and Omnia Sol, and have readings of stories and poetry from Tish Turl, Donald A. Wolheim, and Adam Ray Adkins. And Tish, Adam, and Laura discuss collective social PTSD, the public freakouts Reddit, an increasing intolerability of daily life, the indifference of the political center, the primordial soup of nihilism, the global surplus army of labor, the 2022 US elections as “liberal” World War Three abroad vs. fascism at home, the apocalyptic AI image generators that “paint the last selfie ever taken,” and the algorithm of AI image generators as a “machine of reward and discipline.” The second half of this episode is available to Locust subscribers and patrons only. Fundraisers discussed in this episode: Carbondale Union Barista Solidarity Fund , Locust Review INFLATION Fundraiser , and Annual Born Again Labor Museum Fund Drive . Music included in this episode includes: The Whistle Pigs, “I’m Broke, ” The Flowers of Evil, “Pink Llama,” These Magnificent Tapeworms, “16 Tons” ; and Omnia Sol, “Vapor.” Readings in this episode include: Tish Turl reading the Michelist short story by Donald A. Wolheim (pen name: Millard Verne Gordan), “Bomb” from Science Fiction Quarterly (1)9 (1942); Adam Ray Adkins reading his poem, “Burnt Offerings” from Locust Review 9; Tish Turl reading “Rumbumble” from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer in Locust Review 7; Artworks, artists, writers, articles and texts discussed in this episode include: “Wars Beneath: Atomization, Alienation + Excavating Futures in an Age of Conflict,” Locust Review 9 (Fall 2022); Mike Linaweaver, “The Someday Massacre,” Locust Review 9 (Fall 2022); Charles Baudelaire; Georges Sorel; “Planet Cleveland Unionizes,” from Stink Ape Resurrection Primer 6 in Locust Review 9 (Fall 2022); Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures (2014); Banksy; Lionello Puppi, Torment in Art (1991); Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture (2022). Locust Radio is a project of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, produced by Omnia Sol and Alexander Billet, and hosted by Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl . Show music by Omnia Sol . Original credits mixed by Drew Franzblau.…

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Episode 17.5 - Ring the Dollar Stores (Preview) 20:08

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This is a preview of the second half of our Halloween episode. To hear the full episode become a Locust Review patron. In the second half of our Halloween episode our digital recording system continually glitches in a gesture of solidarity to help free us from the grip of capitalist machines. In between glitches we brainstorm about gothic and hauntological irrealist gestures, including the possibility of creating an animist dollar store in which all the commodities come to life, marked with the labors that produced them. We also listen to more music from Fat JackRabbit , Omnia Sol , Hans Predator , and Worthless Scarecrow , and Tish reads from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer . Songs featured in the Episode 17.5 include: Fat Jackrabbit, “Black Spaghetti ; Omnia Sol. “I’ll Stop Texting I Promise” ; Hans Predator, “Young and Uninspiring” ; and Worthless Scarecrow, “Water Street” . Please check out their work (linked here to their bandcamp pages) and show them some love, and buy some music. Our opening reading was Tish and Adam Turl’s “Orbital Billboards” from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer in Locust Review #8. Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl , and produced by Alexander Billet and Omnia Sol . Theme music is by Omnia Sol .…

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Episode 17 - We Are The Monsters We’ve Been Waiting For 1:21:38

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In this Halloween episode of Locust Radio , Tish and Adam discuss folk horror, folk devils, and ghosts, listen to music from Fat JackRabbit , Omnia Sol , Hans Predator , and Worthless Scarecrow , and hear poetry from Mike Linaweaver and Leslie Lea. Our co-host Laura Fair-Schulz was out sick and we look forward to their return in the next episode. Our discussion starts with the story of a spectral hound called “Old Black Eyes,” a cryptid that dissolves itself in its own tears , and more. Tish and Adam talk about the ethos of Halloween cutting against the capitalist impulse to map the entire world for profit and that UFOs are a secular visitation of “Biblically accurate angels.” We also discuss the persecution of witches, Silvia Federici’s argument that magic is antithetical to capitalism, the irrealist strategy of appropriating “folk devils,” solidarity with monsters, and how the working-class itself summons the hauntological ghost of Marxism. Tish and Adam invent a new cryptid that has an anteater-like proboscis that steals children from Christian Nationalists and the worst members of the bourgeoisie to “save their souls.” Lastly: “no one wants to Sysphus anymore'' and “we are the monsters we’ve been waiting for.” Songs featured in this episode include: Fat JackRabbit, “Bad Dream” ; Omnia Sol, “Rod Lavars” ; Hans Predator, “Suck-cess” ; and Worthless Scarecrow, “Not” . Please check out their work (linked here to their bandcamp pages) and show them some love, and buy some music. Poems featured includeL “Someday Massacre” by Mike Linaweaver (forthcoming in Locust Review #9); and “Spring” by Leslie Lea (from Locust Review #8). Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl , Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl , and produced by Alexander Billet and Omnia Sol . Theme music is by Omnia Sol .…

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