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ACFM episodes

January 07, 2020 #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
1 hr 4 min
November 28, 2019 #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/
51 min
November 24, 2019 #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
53 min
October 13, 2019 #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/
Roger Hallam Interview: https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/49-roger-hallam-on-extinction-rebellion
Global Justice Rebellion: https://www.facebook.com/events/489014714988220/
47 min
October 07, 2019 #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
1 hr 1 min
October 05, 2019 #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 referred to: Mark Fisher — Acid Communism (unfinished introduction) / Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism / Mark Fisher and Jeremy Gilbert – Capitalist Realism and Neoliberal Hegemony: A Dialogue / William H. Hinton – Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village / Keir Milburn – Generation Left
Other links:
Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn – Building Acid Communism – transmediale.de/content/building-acid-communism
A description of the Acid Communism Consciousness Raising groups we have been running.
Kathie Sarachild – Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon. – womenwhatistobedone.files.wordpress.com/2013/…s.pdf
The classic early text on Consciousness Raising from the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Institute for Precarious Consciousness – We Are All Very Anxious www.weareplanc.org/blog/we-are-all-very-anxious/
An influential text that proposes anti-precarity consciousness raising groups as the precondition for political action under contemporary conditions.
56 min
September 17, 2019 #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 Oppression
Lisa Adkins & Diana Leonard (eds) Sex in Question: French materialist feminism
There’s a useful article on social reproduction theory, by Susan Ferguson, here: https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/social-reproduction-theory-ferguson/
56 min
September 17, 2019 #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

20 min
September 08, 2019 #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.
56 min
July 18, 2019 #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/
39 min