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…
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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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