In episode 28 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It 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 cybernetic Anthropocene.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 23 - Escape from Normal Island
In this episode of Locust Radio, we hear an audio essay, “Escape from Normal Island,” by Locust comrade and author Adam Marks. Marks provides an extended exegesis of “normal island,” otherwise known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island. Discussion includes: the very normal decade-long prelude to the 2024 UK elections; the possibility that the Conservative Party might cease to exist; the political gutting of Labour; managed decline; the far-right Reform Party; the “absolute boy” – the most normal person on Normal Island; the end of the UK’s extended sabbatical from history…
Read MoreLocust Radio * CARE: Trans + Queer Relocation Solidarity in So. ILL
In this Locust Radio “Special Report” — a preview of a segment from forthcoming episode twenty-one — we interview two members of the Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity about organizing mutual aid and solidarity with trans and queer persons relocating from increasingly hostile areas.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 20 - Shake the City
In this episode, recorded downwind from an increasingly immolated Canada, we interview Alexander Billet, author of the book, Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis from 1968 Press (2022).
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Locust Radio Ep. 19 - The Monsters Are Coming
In this episode of Locust Radio, Tish, Laura, and Adam discuss the theme of, and editorial for, Locust Review #10, “The Monsters Are Coming,” the social construction of the monstrous, the idea of “solidarity with monsters,” differentiating between “their” monsters and “ours”…
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 17.5 - Ring the Dollar Stores (Preview)
This is a preview of the second half of our Halloween episode. To hear the full episode become a Locust Review patron. In the second half of our Halloween episode our digital recording system continually glitches in a gesture of solidarity to help free us from the grip of capitalist machines.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 16 - Irrealist Combat League
Our guest this month is Alex McIntyre from the Irrealist Combat League. Our music is by Pet Mosquito and Omnia Sol. And our featured readings come from Mike Linaweaver and the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer (by Tish Turl and Adam Turl).
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep. 15 - Starbucks vs. Utopia
After the opening reading, a sketch based on an excerpt from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer, Tish and Adam interview Ken LeBlanc, a rank-and-file member of the Main Street Carbondale, Illinois Starbucks union organizing committee. The Starbucks Workers United organizing effort went public in Carbondale in late May. LeBlanc discusses organizing, how to start a union, the grievances of her co-workers, making food for folks as an art, the Restaurant Organizing Project, how uncontested corporate power breeds unethical behavior, the grassroots organizing in Southern Illinois around abortion rights and reproductive justice, and speculates — at our request — on her idea of utopia.
Read MoreEpisode 11 - Locust Phenotype Plasticity
Why does this extraterrestrial on a talk show say the aliens want to “help us,” and why are they so interested in our water? Seems fishy… Adam and Tish speak with artist, writer, and Locust Arts & Letters Collective member Laura Fair-Schulz about her work…
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 10 Richard Hamilton’s Discordant Will
In this episode Tish and Adam talk to the poet Richard Hamilton about his new book, Rest of Us (Recenter Press, 2021) and Hamilton shares a number of his poems. We also discuss, among other things, the relationship of the social and the subjective, absurdist aesthetic strategies, the afterlife of slavery, remixing time, the “MFA industry” and the Kenneth Goldsmith controversy, what it means to write or make art for the working-class and oppressed, the relationship of visual art to poetry, and the discordant will of the revolutionary subject.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 5.5 GameStop Never Happened (Preview)
For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Alex reads a long excerpt from this massive essay in the newest issue of Salvage. Also, Tish, Adam and Alex talk about the aesthetics of the GameStop short squeeze…
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 5 Norming in America
Lots has happened since our last episode…
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 4.5 The Cookie Monster Who Flew Into Space from Peoria, Illinois
For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Tish Markley and Adam Ray Adkins share more of their work. We also talk about Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and narrative conceptual art, and why the Peoria Cookie Monster mural is so much more interesting than those monoliths that have been appearing lately. If you want to hear this portion, and haven’t subscribed yet, do so now.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 3.5 Hugo Gernsback Gets Pounded in the Butt by His Own Apolitical Scientific Utopianism
For the second half of Locust Radio episode three, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, we share some of our current writing and research, including a much-overlooked group of writers who tried to claim sci-fi for communism in the 1930s, and an overview of the work of Hugo-nominated fantasy writer Chuck Tingle.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 3 Four Seasons Totalitarian Landscaping
Adam, Tish, and Alex discuss all manner of post-election oddities, and what they tell us about an imminent Joe Biden presidency. Plus, poetry from Tish and fellow Locust editor Mike Linaweaver, and the final thoughts of two very severed heads.
Read MoreLocust Radio Ep 2.5 The Goths Are Alright
For the second half of our show, we discuss Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Roger Corman’s 1964 adaptation…
Read MoreEpisode 2 - Death Becomes Us: A Very Locust Halloween
Happy Halloween! No surprise we love the scary season here at Locust Radio. To celebrate, Adam, Tish and Alex discuss some of their favorite artifacts of radical(-ish) horror: Larry Cohen’s Maniac Cop, Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, and clipping.’s There Existed an Addiction To Blood. We also check in with some spooky pals defending an asylum from gentrifiers and read some our favorite answers from the Irrealist Workers Survey.
Read MoreEpisode 1 - Art, Poetry, + Boomer the Three-Legged Piss Hero
Locust Radio is Locust Review’s monthly podcast on the weird, the political, and where they intersect in fiction, art, poetry and creativity. Hosted by LR editors Tish Markley, Adam Turl and Alexander Billet, Locust Radio features discussions of the radical weird, history and current events, interviews with artists, writers, and musicians, and readings of conceptual art, poetry and fiction. Locust Radio is produced by Drew Franzblau. Music is by Omnia Sol.
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