In this episode we listen to music from the Whistle Pigs, These Magnificent Tapeworms, The Flowers of Evil, and Omnia Sol, and have readings of stories and poetry from Tish Turl, Donald A. Wolheim, and Adam Ray Adkins. And Tish, Adam, and Laura discuss collective social PTSD, the public freakouts Reddit, an increasing intolerability of daily life, the indifference of the political center, the primordial soup of nihilism, the global surplus army of labor, the 2022 US elections as “liberal” World War Three abroad vs. fascism at home, the apocalyptic AI image generators that “paint the last selfie ever taken,” and the algorithm of AI image generators as a “machine of reward and discipline.”
The second half of this episode is available to Locust subscribers and patrons only.
Fundraisers discussed in this episode: Carbondale Union Barista Solidarity Fund, Locust Review INFLATION Fundraiser, and Annual Born Again Labor Museum Fund Drive. Music included in this episode includes: The Whistle Pigs, “I’m Broke, ” The Flowers of Evil, “Pink Llama,” These Magnificent Tapeworms, “16 Tons”; and Omnia Sol, “Vapor.” Readings in this episode include: Tish Turl reading the Michelist short story by Donald A. Wolheim (pen name: Millard Verne Gordan), “Bomb” from Science Fiction Quarterly (1)9 (1942); Adam Ray Adkins reading his poem, “Burnt Offerings” from Locust Review 9; Tish Turl reading “Rumbumble” from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer in Locust Review 7.
Artworks, artists, writers, articles and texts discussed in this episode include: “Wars Beneath: Atomization, Alienation + Excavating Futures in an Age of Conflict,” Locust Review 9 (Fall 2022); Mike Linaweaver, “The Someday Massacre,” Locust Review 9 (Fall 2022); Charles Baudelaire; Georges Sorel; “Planet Cleveland Unionizes,” from Stink Ape Resurrection Primer 6 in Locust Review 9 (Fall 2022); Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures (2014); Banksy; Lionello Puppi, Torment in Art (1991); Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture (2022).
Locust Radio is a project of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, produced by Omnia Sol and Alexander Billet, and hosted by Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl. Show music by Omnia Sol. Original credits mixed by Drew Franzblau.
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