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.
Richard, Adam, and Tish also discuss race, class and the pandemic; liberal and fascist responses to COVID-19 and climate catastrophe; nihilistic working-class responses to disaster; what it means for artists to imagine alternatives to racism and capitalism; the contradictions of becoming cyborgs in an era of precarious labor and capitalist disaster; what it means to adjunct “what you love;” gentrification and the separation of artists and the left from the working-class; “delicately wearing the crown of oblivion;” the prospects for resistance; and more.
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.
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