Tish and Adam are joined by our new co-host Laura Fair-Schulz, our new co-producer Omnia Sol, and our guest, poet, writer, and comrade Crystal Stella Becerril.
Crystal Stella Becerril collaborated for several years with Locust Radio co-producer Alexander Billet, Omnia, and Adam at the Red Wedge project in the 2010s. She is a freelance writer, podcaster, and an organizer with the National Writers Union Freelance Solidarity Project. Stella poetry and non-fiction has been published by multiple websites and journals. She’s presented several papers at the Historical Materialism conferences in London, Toronto and New York. Earlier in the pandemic she helped organize a rent strike in her apartment building in New York City.
In today’s episode we discuss writing poetry and theory, the relationship of poetry and photography to capitalism, how we are conditioned to understand work and time under capitalism, the anxiety of trying to take care of yourself in a class society, organizing freelance workers, the art of editing, poetry vs. the digital attention economy; and more.
Some of the works discussed, read, or listened to in this episode: Crystal Stella Becerril, “What if You Had Taken the Day Off?,” Locust Review 7 (2022); Omnia Sol, “icloud fucking sucks”; Omnia Sol, “Juicy Slice”; Crystal Stella Becerril, “Wages for Housework and Other Neccessay Labor,” Red Wedge Magazine (2019); Tish Turl, “Giving Up,” Locust Review 5 (2021); Kevin Coleman and Daniel James, editors, Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction (Verso: 2021).
Locust Radio is hosted by Laura Fair-Schulz, Adam Turl, and Tish Turl; and produced by Omnia Sol and Alexander BIllet. Theme music by Omnia Sol. Original opening produced by Drew Franzblau.
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