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.
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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.
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.
Can We Escape the Obsession With Growth?
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle & Keir Milburn
A weird-left perspective on growth, from macroeconomics to personal productivity.
What’s the Hidden Unpaid Labour That Keeps the Economy Running?
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn
The ACFM crew explain how social reproduction gets us back into work, day after day.
Is Cleanliness the Most Powerful Taboo?
Jem Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Who’s doing the dishes in the communist utopia? ACFM investigate the politics of cleaning and cleanliness.
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Are Superheroes Inherently Reactionary?
Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert
The ACFM hosts explore the enduring popularity of superheroes.
Does the Left Need New Heroes?
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn
The ACFM crew ask whether the idea of the hero is a right-wing fantasy.
Should Revolutionaries Fall in Love? Reading Alexandra Kollontai
Jem Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
The ACFM gang read a classic communist text by Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai.
Why Leftwing Politics Still Needs ‘Acid’
Jem Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
On their 50th Trip, the gang wonder why ‘acid’ has retained its potency in politics and culture.
What’s the Point in Art When the World Is on Fire?
Nadia Idle meets Amber Massie-Blomfield
The author of Acts of Resistance makes the case for creativity in a crisis.
How Does Sovereign Debt Work?
Keir Milburn & Nadia Idle meet Heidi Chow
How and why do countries borrow money? Heidi Chow, executive director of Debt Justice, provides the big picture on ACFM.
Trip 49: Debt
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn & Jem Gilbert
From easy credit to debt jubilees, what does it means to owe and be owed? The ACFM gang find out.
Reading the Communist Manifesto
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle & Keir Milburn
The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of Marx and Engels’ endlessly quotable 1848 tract.
Trip 48: Political Commitment
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn & Jeremy Gilbert
The ACFM gang ask what it means to dedicate yourself to a cause, with ideas from Jodi Dean and Leonard Cohen.
Trip 47: Disruption
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert
Why are so many people so angry at Just Stop Oil? The ACFM gang explore the political uses and abuses of disruption.
Trip 46: Death
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew face the inevitable.
Microdose: The Joy of Fascism
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
A month after racist riots engulfed Britain, the ACFM crew ask why the Labour party chose not align itself with opponents of fascism.