Welcome to Locust Radio! The weird, the eerie, the irreal, the eldritch, the fantastical and just plain horrifying; they’re everywhere today as the world seems to fall apart. In this, our first episode, Tish, Adam and Alex discuss some of these ideas and others that went into the creation of this podcast and Locust Review. We talk about the history of non-realist radical art movements, and what we can learn from them in our own struggles against fascism, immiseration, and climate catastrophe. We also read some poetry and weird fiction, hear from Karen-eating aliens and a couple of jaded cave goblins, and talk about Boomer, the ghost-dog with three legs who saved a town by peeing on a train. Because this is our first episode, we are giving you BOTH halves of the show for free! But for future episodes, the second half will be available to PATRONS ONLY! So if you like what you hear, then support the podcast and Locust Review on Patreon.
Works referenced: Capitalist Realism, by Mark Fisher; The Weird and the Eerie, by Mark Fisher; AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction, by Rochelle Spencer; “A Moonlit Enchanted Night,” by Michael Löwy; I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism, by AM Gittlitz; The Xenofeminist Manifesto, by Laboria Cubonix; “Theses On the Concept of History,” by Walter Benjamin.
Locust Radio is produced by Drew Franzblau. It is hosted by Alexander Billet, Tish Markley, and Adam Turl. Music is by Omnia Sol.
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