ACFM

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn bring you ACFM – a show about left-wing politics, culture, music and experiences of collective joy.

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#ACFM Microdose: Acid Lockdown

The #ACFM crew discuss life in lockdown including cheese care packs, the moral economy, and the crisis of liberalism. Texts: Nadia Idle- This Too Shall Pass https://notaloneintheworld.com/2020/03/22/this-too-shall-pass/ / Craig Gent – When Logistics Run Out Of Time https://novaramedia.com/2020/03/23/when-logistics-run-out-of-time / / Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer – How Corona Virus Hijacks Your Cells https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/science/how-coronavirus-hijacks-your-cells.html ...

Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 1 min

#ACFM Trip 8: Acid Urbanism

Nadia Idle , Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn discuss Acid Urbanism, including, The Right to the City, Communist Follies and Reclaiming the Streets. Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull. PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481 Tracklist : D-Shake – Techno Trance/ The Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer in the City/ David Bowie – London Bye, Ta-Ta/ The Specials – Ghost Town/ Pete Seeger – O What a Beautiful City Texts : Henri Lefebrvre – The Right to the City /Naomi Klein – No Logo/ Iva...

Feb 16, 2020•59 min

#ACFM Microdose: The Comedown

The #ACFM crew take stock in the wake of Labour’s defeat and the dawning of a new year. https://novaramedia.com/?p=16785

Jan 07, 2020•1 hr 3 min

#ACFM Trip 7: Be Here Now

Nadia Idle , Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn ask why now for acid corbynism? They discuss historical conjunctures, farcical repetitions, and left melancholy. https://novaramedia.com/2019/10/27/acfm-trip-7-be-here-now/

Nov 28, 2019•51 min

#ACFM Microdose: Election Special

‘You can’t say it’s boring’: the #ACFM crew bring you an election special – on organising, energy and political polarisation. Plus, a special campaigning song. https://novaramedia.com/?p=15970

Nov 24, 2019•53 min

#ACFM Microdose: Extinction Rebellion

The #ACFM crew discuss some of the issues and ideas raised by the ongoing Extinction Rebellion protests in London (and around the world). Links to some of the talks and texts discussed in the show: https://rebellion.earth Gail Bradbrook video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wUJFrvnGk Why Civil Resistance Works: https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/IS3301_pp007-044_Stephan_Chenoweth.pdf Graham Jones – Shock Doctrine of the Left: http://politybooks.com/jones10052018/ R...

Oct 13, 2019•46 min

#ACFM Trip 6: Intoxication and Sobriety

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn talk intoxication and sobriety: from capitalist prohibition to weekend trippers, from drunk workers to Romantic escapes from bourgeois subjectivity, to straightedge and tech-world microdosers. PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481

Oct 07, 2019•1 hr

#ACFM Trip 5: Consciousness Raising

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss consciousness raising. Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull. PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481 Tracks featured: Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Johnny Osbourne – Truth and Rights / Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – This Land is Your Land / Arrested Development – Give a Man a Fish / Childish Gambino – This is America / Gregory Porter – 1960 What? / Bernie Sanders – This Land is Your Land Texts ...

Oct 05, 2019•55 min

#ACFM Microdose: Mica Nava on Feminist Consciousness Raising

ACFM’s Jeremy Gilbert interviews Professor Mica Nava on her experience of women’s liberation and consciousness raising in London in the 1970s. Mica is the author books such as Changing Cultures; Feminism, Youth and Consumerism and Visceral Cosmopolitanism Here are some texts by some of the people we mention: Sheila Rowbotham Women’s Consciousness, Man’s World Juliet Mitchell Women’s Estate Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex Christine Delphy Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s ...

Sep 17, 2019•55 min

#ACFM Microdose: Theories of Consciousness

The #ACFM crew discuss the history of theories of ideology and consciousness in the radical tradition. Texts referred to include: Karl Marx The German Ideology György Lukacs History and Class Consciousness Vladimir Leinin What is to be Done Antonio Gramsci Selections From the Prison Notebooks Stuart Hall et. al Policing the Crisis Paolo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed Félix Guattari & Suely Rolnick Molecular Revolution in Brazil...

Sep 17, 2019•19 min

#ACFM Trip 5: Consciousness Raising

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss consciousness raising, with bonus excerpts from an interview with Mica Nava, one of the pioneers of feminist consciousness-raising in the UK. Listen to the full show, with music and archival material, on the Novara Media website or on Soundcloud.

Sep 08, 2019•55 min

#ACFM Trip 4: Love and Hate

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss love and hate. Listen to the full version of the show, including music and archive material on the Novara Media website: http://novaramedia.com/2019/07/16/acfm-trip-4-love-and-hate/

Jul 18, 2019•39 min

#ACFM Trip 3: The Weird Left

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the weird left. FULL SHOW: http://novaramedia.com/2019/06/12/acfm-3-the-weird-left/

Jun 14, 2019•44 min

#ACFM Trip 2: Collective Joy

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the politics of collective joy. FULL SHOW: http://novaramedia.com/2019/05/07/acfm-collective-joy/

May 07, 2019•41 min

#ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn bring you #ACFM, a new show examining the links between left-wing politics and culture, music and experiences of collective joy. In this episode: what is – or was – the counterculture? What is ‘Acid Corbynism’? And is expanding consciousness anti-political? You can find the Acid Corbynism project on Facebook. PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481 #ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box...

Apr 09, 2019•58 min

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