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The Born Again Labor Museum (BALM) is an ongoing art project by Locust editors and artists Adam Turl + Tish Markley.

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Making Protest Signs at the Born Again Labor Museum (November 3, 2020)

Born Again Labor Museum February 10, 2021
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Controversy Stage Left: The Tragedy of Edward Bond
Alexander Billet
Apr 29, 2024
Controversy Stage Left: The Tragedy of Edward Bond
Alexander Billet
Apr 29, 2024

Edward Bond died on March 3 a cumbersome cultural figure. Always controversial, but celebrated in the 1960s and 70s, no major British stage has taken on a new work from him in decades. He died as Israel inched into its fifth month of its massacre in Gaza. And he died at a time when theatre matters less than it has at probably any point in human history. 

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Alexander Billet
Apr 29, 2024
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Fascist Pizza
Editorial
Feb 12, 2025
Fascist Pizza
Editorial
Feb 12, 2025

American fascism has a plastic shopping mall nostalgia. It is the fascism, not of a young empire thwarted, but an empire in decline. It is, at one level, a photograph of an abandoned Pizza Hut with the caption “This is what they took from us.”

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Editorial
Feb 12, 2025
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The Case for Critical Irrealism
Alexander Billet
May 15, 2022
The Case for Critical Irrealism
Alexander Billet
May 15, 2022

In the face of this, appeals to normality are, in essence, the toxic optimism of American exceptionalism, the belief that America is somehow above time, above consequence. And though the reality of President Joe Biden has breathed some new life into this myth, make no mistake, it nonetheless wobbles like a drunk trying to walk a tightrope.

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Alexander Billet
May 15, 2022
Critical Irrealist Reading List
Alexander Billet + Adam Turl
Mar 21, 2022
Critical Irrealist Reading List
Alexander Billet + Adam Turl
Mar 21, 2022

A single mother is driving past an abandoned factory on her way home from a low paying job. She is hungry. Above the factory a billboard floats in the sky advertising a succulent feast. But it does not strike her — or us — that this is odd, that her hunger has manifested itself above the factory ruin in an image of unavailable food. When we step outside ideology we see this absurdism for what it is.

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Alexander Billet + Adam Turl
Mar 21, 2022
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In the Marshes
Adam Marks
May 11, 2024
In the Marshes
Adam Marks
May 11, 2024

“It snatched a dog two days ago, in Drapers Fields,” Detective Constable Habib explained back at the station to her superior, “right in front of its owner. They found its entrails wrapped around a lamppost on the High Road. It’s head was…”

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Adam Marks
May 11, 2024
An Attic in Prague, 1939
Alexander Billet
May 11, 2024
An Attic in Prague, 1939
Alexander Billet
May 11, 2024

Even in this cacophony, it’s the silence that unsettles most. If only because it won’t be long until it’s pierced again. Screaming, shouting, tires screeching, panicked footfalls, sporadic gunfire. If there were ever a silence that could threaten, a kind of quietude that, for a few seconds or several minutes, promises to split the skull of whomever steps in its way, this is it.

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Alexander Billet
May 11, 2024
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If Venus Were the Moon
Leslie Lea
Oct 5, 2023
If Venus Were the Moon
Leslie Lea
Oct 5, 2023

If Venus were the moon / your voice would still / smell like gunpowder 

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Leslie Lea
Oct 5, 2023
High Up on the Hill
Mike Linaweaver
Oct 5, 2023
High Up on the Hill
Mike Linaweaver
Oct 5, 2023

there’ll be snow on the tombstones, / snow and something else / soon enough

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Mike Linaweaver
Oct 5, 2023
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