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. 

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.

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.

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 guest for the second half of Locust Radio episode 15 is our very own Alexander Billet. Alex is a writer, artist, and editor at Locust Review. They join us in the virtual Locust studio to discuss the editorial for Locust Review 8, “The Utopia Principle,” which Alex took the lead on writing.

This is an excerpt from the second half of Locust Radio episode 14. To get the full episode subscribe to Locust Review. In the second half of the episode, we continue to talk to Crystal Stella Becerril about making art as a human compulsion vs. making art for pleasure, how pleasure is distorted by capitalism, art and community, organizing for reproductive rights and unions, making art for our communities and working-class siblings and comrades, Theresa May wearing a Frida Kahlo bracelet, poetry zines, the Bluestockings cooperative bookstore, and more.

After Sewerbot rises into the city, Tish and Adam talk to Locust collective member and artist Omnia Sol and listen to songs from their new album Sunshine Tapes. They discuss vaporwave, glitch art, NFTs (the “Funko Pops of digital art”), and more.

In the second half of the episode — for patrons and subscribers only — R. Faze reads their story, “I Live an Hour from My Body” from Locust Review #4. We then continue to discuss art and politics with Laura Fair-Schulz, including her works, “Song of the Barren Tree,” “Circuit Eye Vines,” and “Dysmorph Becoming Aware.” We also discuss Laura’s process in greater detail, NFTs and art world finance, Marxism and art history, “business ontology,” division on the left, Mark Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle,” the contradictions of social media, colonization, and more.

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Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl and Adam Turl. Locust Radio is produced by Alexander Billet and Drew Franzblau. Music is by Omnia Sol.

In the second half of episode 10 — available to Locust subscribers and patrons only — Richard Hamilton reads more from his new collection of poetry, Rest of Us. Tish and Adam read “HPV/Ballgraves” by Michel(le) D. Yomack Wolheim III, a story about cybernetic labor in a major drug store chain, from Locust Review #6.

In the second half of episode 9, available for subscribers and patrons, we discuss the relationship between class, subjectivity, and art in collective wall writing and the socialist punk band, the Minutemen; post-capitalist culture; the need for revolutionary struggle in the absence of revolutionary models; the fragmentation of the left and the class; and more. Tish and Adam also read excerpts from The Stink Ape Resurrection Primer.

In this episode begin with an excerpt from the Locust anthology series, Swarm Stories, and then Tish and Adam move on to discussing art, politics, and propaganda with Locust comrade Anupam Roy. Anupam Roy is an artist and propagandist with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. We also discuss Anupam’s drawings, appearing in Locust Review #5, Excuse Me I Was Sharpening My Teeth and May Day; Tish’s “franken-prose-poetry” series, The Stink Ape Resurrection Primer'; and Adam’s painting/collage, Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain, and augmented digital print series, Social Resurrection Task-Prints.

For the second half of episode four -- which first aired for Locust patrons on December 29, 2020 -- Tish Turl and Adam Ray Adkins share more of their work. Adam Turl, Tish Turl, and Alex Billet also talk with Omnia Sol and Adam Ray Adkins about Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and narrative conceptual art, and why the Peoria Cookie Monster mural is so much more interesting than those stupid monoliths that have been appearing lately.

In this second half of episode three (originally posted to our Patrons in December, 2020) Adam, Tish, and Alex share some of our current writing and research, including a report on the Michelists and an overview of the work of Hugo-nominated fantasy writer Chuck Tingle.