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The Acid Left aims to foster an awareness of social class and emancipatory politics through online and real-life events and happenings ... turn on, tune in, and shape a future collective reality.
The Acid Left aims to foster an awareness of social class and emancipatory politics through online and real-life events and happenings ... turn on, tune in, and shape a future collective reality.
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Revol Press present a conversation and metal and the left. They will publish a compendium entitled What's Left of Metal? in late 2025.
Editors: David Burke, Mike Watson
Authors: Ben Burgis, Thomas Cardwell, Tee Coles, Chris DeMarcus, Holly Royle, Lars Lindemann, Daniel Lukes, Evan Martin-Casler, Ignacio Moreno Fluxà, Jason Myles, Alessandro Rolandi, Jen Sicka, Eric Smialek, Melissa Vincent, Clara Wanning
Matt McManus talks to Bram E. Gieben on liberal Socialism in illiberal times.
Matt's The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism is out now: https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Theory-of-Liberal-Socialism/McManus/p/book/9781032647234
Support Revol Press at: https://www.revolpress.com/
And: https://www.patreon.com/c/revolpress
Mike Watson talks to Eliot Rosenstock about Addiction and Capitalism. Hosted by Bram E. Gieben.
Buy Mike's book here: https://www.revolpress.com/hungry-ghosts-in-the-machine
Theorize and be Damned is a Podcast of Revol Press.
Revol Press Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/revolpress
Mike Watson and Bram E. Gieben talk to Rob Faure Walker, author of Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis.
Buy Love and the Market from Bristol University Press here: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/love-and-the-market
Pre-order Bram and Mike's books here: https://www.revolpress.com/
Follow Revol Press on Instagram: @revol_press
About Rob Faure Walker
Formerly a teacher in North and East London, Rob was drawn into politics as a teachers' union rep. He has since worked to oppose the Government's promotion of Islamophobia via the Prevent Counter Terrorism Strategy. A process described in his first book The Emergence of "Extremism" (Bloomsbury 2021). In recent years, he has worked at SOAS and at UCL to develop strategies to oppose the propagation of anti-intellectual faux-research by Government aligned think tanks. This has involved developing communications training for academics and designing communications strategies to deliver genuine academic research to Westminster. His latest book Love and the Market develops a post-Marxist 'loving critique' of the market economy. He now works as an ecotherapist, developing people's loving connection with nature as a way of healing us and nature from the multiple crises of modernity.
Mike Watson and Bram Gieben interview Adam Turl, writer of the forthcoming Gothic Futurism: And the Working Class (2025, from Revol Press).
See details on that book here: https://www.revolpress.com/gothic-futurism
See Locus Review here: https://www.locustreview.com
Support Revol Press at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/revolpress
Adam Turl is an artist and writer living in southern Illinois in the United States. They are an editor at Locust Review, a co-host of the Locust Radio podcast, and are working on an ongoing visual and conceptual art project, the Born Again Labor Museum, with their partner Tish Turl. They are a member of the Southern Illinois Democratic Socialists of America (SIDSA). In the 2010s, they were part of the editorial collective for Red Wedge Magazine.
We spoke to Matt McManus about the dangers of the Radical right wing, covering Trumpianism, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and much more along the way.
We also asked Matt about his writing process, gaining valuable insights into his approach.
You can find his book The Political Right and Equality (Routledge) here:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Right-and-Equality-Turning-Back-the-Tide-of-Egalitarian-Modernity/McManus/p/book/9781032310831
Matt McManus is a Lecturer at the University of Michigan and the author of The Political Right and Equality (Routledge), The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism, a How Too Guide to Cosmopolitan Socialism, amongst other books.
Subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104060602
Check out our books here: www.revolpress.com
We talk to Emma Stamm about Mark Fisher, the Limit Experience, Digital Capitalism, internet culture and more.
Here are the links to the articles discussed:
https://reallifemag.com/who-can-it-be-now/
https://social-epistemology.com/2022/04/18/curiosity-and-anti-economy-a-response-to-florian-jaton-emma-stamm/
http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Stamm.pdf
Subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104060602Check out our books here: www.revolopress.com
Emma Stamm is an Assistant Professor of Science and technology studies at Farmingdale State College-SUNY. Her fields are Critical Theory and Science and Technology Studies. Her research comprises integrative analyses of digitally mediated communication and psychedelic drug experience as catalysts of knowledge about human life.
Revol Books launch their Theorize and be Damned podcast with a chat with Bram E. Gieben about his forthcoming book The Darkest Timeline.
Preorder Bram's book here:
https://linktr.ee/thedarkesttimeline
Subscribe to the Revol Press Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/revolpress
Revol's Instagram: revol_press
Portrait of Bram E. Gieben in thumbnail by Lucy Cheyne
We talk with Adam and Tish Turl from the Locust Review quarterly. We discuss the founding and purpose of Locust Review, the theory of Critical Irrealism, and their ever-growing installation in The Born Again Labor Museum. Adam and Tish are longtime friends of the acid left so this is a fun episode filled with laughs. We also speculate what a left wing response to Q might be, talk fan fiction, share fever dreams and tips for agitating at the workplace.
Support The Acid Left
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Locust Review
https://www.locustreview.com/
Call For Submissions!!
https://www.locustreview.com/editorial/locust-7-missing-days-call-for-submissions
Outro Music by Made in 1985
https://madein1985.bandcamp.com/
In the third in this series Mike Watson talks to Max Ryynänen asking if the Frankfurt School are too Bourgeois.
Max is a tenured Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and theorist of Aesthetics, where he focuses on excluded and outsider practices. He published On the Philosophy of Central European Art (2020), in which he proposes Nobrow art production as a response to the dichotomy between High and Low brow and the way in which the former co-opts the latter.
You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336
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In the fourth in this series Mike Watson talks to Matt McManus asking if Adorno's criticism of Existentialism in the 'Jargon of Authenticity' was fair. Matt McManus is a Professor of Law and Society at The University of Calgary.
He is also the author of... The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), AND co author of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books AND A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights (Palgrave 2020).
You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/memeing-mark-fisher
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The Acid Left talk to Marshall Roderick, son of Rick Roderick. As well as following up our campaign to get Roderick republished, we ask what the man was like, what he would have made of Biden and Trump, Lefttube and much more !
You can read Max Roderick's text on Rick Roderick here: http://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/
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In the second in this series Mike Watson talks to Douglas Kellner, author of several books on Critical Theory including Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, and American Nightmare Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism.
Martin Jay is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.
In September Springer publish Kellner's Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism.
You can preorder Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336
Follow us: insta: @The Acid Left twitter: @acid_left patreon.com/acidleft
In this new series Mike Watson talks to Martin Jay, Historian of philosophy and author of several books on the Frankfurt School including the Dialectical Imagination and the recent essay collection Splinters in your Eye.
Martin Jay is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Books and Essays Discussed: Martin Jay, Splinters in You Eye -- https://www.versobooks.com/books/3183-splinters-in-your-eye
Martin Jay, Trump, Scorsese and the Frankfurt School's theory of the Racket Society -- https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-scorsese-and-the-frankfurt-schools-theory-of-racket-society/
Mike Watson, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336
We talk to Graham Jones about his podcast Red Enlightenment hosted on Repeater Radio. Red Enlightenment is an 8 part series about science, socialism, and spirituality that draws influence from Spinoza and Marx to Michael Brooks and Mark Fisher while asking questions of metaphysics, ethics, and embodiment in order to move into a Materialist Spirituality.
Contains remixes and samples from the following songs.
Broke for Free- Lonely Organ
Jose Konda- Golgotha
Lobo Loco - Bioscope
Dee Yan-Key - Go Down Moses, Moses Reprise
Farad Farhangi - Animir Roman Havasi
Marten Schellekens - The Little Match Girl
Veena Kinhal - Haratanaya Sree
Made in 1985- Imposter Syndrome
Red Enlightenment https://www.repeater-radio.com/redenlightenment
Shock Doctrine of the left https://politybooks.com/serieslanding/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509528547&subject_id=88
Graham's YouTube https://youtube.com/c/ASMRTheory
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The Acid Left talk to artist and meme maker Teenage Stepdad about his new show on Means TV called Seizing the Memes, his working process, politics, art school and the media... and boaner jokes!
Teenage Stepdad is the person behind the hugely popular insta meme account @teenagestepdad featuring among the best produced memes on the internet most of which perform satirical critiques of popular brands and advertising tropes as well as the culture industry in general.
Check out Seizing the Memes on means.tv and Teenage Stepdad's website at teenagestepdad.com
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The Acid Left talk to Admin1 of the theory collective Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research and curated meme page @cu_media_funhouse.exe. We discuss the ongoing protest in Colombia against tax hikes, state violence, and the government's handling of the worsening health crisis.
We also discuss the disturbing conspiracy theory put forward by the right wing government of "Molecular Revolution" that denies the citizens of Colombia's collective rage by arguing that a foreign communist cabal is trying to undermine the government along with the ideas of Toni Negri, Deleuze, and Guattari.
Admin1 recommends the following Instagram accounts if you are looking for more information on the protest in Colombia:
https://instagram.com/redcondorcollective?utm_medium=copy_link
https://instagram.com/redcritica?utm_medium=copy_link
https://instagram.com/desinformemonos.colombia?utm_medium=copy_link
The video contains memes from The Acid Left Instagram account, cu_media_funhouse.exe, pages from Preliminary Assemblages by CUIR, and the hashtag #colombiaprotesta
Contains remixes of the following songs: Audiobinger- The Upside Down Sudartha Corsus- Let Go of Time El Remolon- Cumbia Bichera Ketsa- Deep Math Sea Dragon- Cuadrados Y Puntos
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Preliminary Assemblages by Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0zIJFvZVvYCXQegAAhVGleK6LKDAwWJ
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Adam Ray Adkins talks to musician and YouTuber Artin Salimi on Mark Fisher, Marxism, Hip Hop, and Islamic Philosophy
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The Acid Left's Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins speak to Art House Politics, artist and 'content' creator about memes, art, content, breatdube, politics online and much more.
The Acid Left's Mike Watson speaks to Valentina Tanni, author of Memestetica, a book on meme culture and contemporary art and society, published in Italian by Nero Editions.
https://www.neroeditions.com/product/memestetica/
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