How Britain’s Fragile Coastal Communities Are Reclaiming Power
Nadia Idle meets Hazel Sheffield
Neglected seaside towns are reimagining their economies.
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Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn examine the links between left-wing politics, culture, music and experiences of collective joy.
Why Do British Seaside Towns Vote Reform?
Nadia Idle, Jem Gilbert and Keir Milburn
A weird-left discussion of life at the beach, from the birth of surf culture to the decline of seaside towns.
What Does Self-Knowledge Look Like? Reading Marcus Aurelius
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert
Get your head around the best-selling self-help book of all time.
Are You Resilient Enough to Face the Future?
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jem Gilbert
Can humans and animals flourish in the ruins of capitalism?
What Does Fascist Art Look Like? Reading Walter Benjamin
Jem Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Join our close reading of a foundational text of 20th century media theory.
Who Still Has the Power to Shock?
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert
From macro economics to modern art to punk rock, how shock has shaped the past century.
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Are We Living Through a New Era of British Weirdness?
Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert
Ley lines, weird walks, standing stones: a vision of modern Britain?
What’s Wrong With Having a Hobby?
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jem Gilbert
A capitalist byproduct or the stuff of utopia?
Should We Fight for Our Right to Be Bored?
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn, Jeremy Gilbert
Face it, you’re over-stimulated.
What Does the Green Party Really Want?
Nadia Idle, Jem Gilbert and Keir Milburn
Will Zack Polanski’s party become the main political vehicle of the radical left?
How to Think Ecologically
Jeremy Gilbert, Keir Milburn and Nadia Idle
Are humans distinct from nature?
Who Are the ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, the Labour Party’s New Faction?
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn & Jeremy Gilbert
An ACFM update on the inner workings of your favourite political party.
Is There Anything Left of the Mainstream?
Jeremy Gilbert, Keir Milburn & Nadia Idle
Is Stranger Things the last remnant of the ‘mainstream’? The gang explore the political meanings of a multifaceted term.
What’s Going on Inside Your Party?
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Is this Corbynism 2.0 or something else? The ACFM crew analyse the predicament facing the new leftwing party.
Do We Still Need Political Parties?
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle & Keir Milburn
Why do they call them parties if they aren’t any fun? ACFM investigates.
How Sci-Fi Visions of the Future Became Dystopian and Paranoid
Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn
And other big questions about science fiction, from Mary Shelley to Kim Stanley Robinson.
What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future?
Nadia Idle, Jem Gilbert and Keir Milburn
A weird-left explanation of how the future lost its shine, with ideas from Max Weber, Kate Raworth and Jonathan White.
Is Gardening What We’d Do If We Didn’t Have to Work?
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
From imperial pineapples to invasive species, ACFM offer a weird-left history of gardening.