ACFM: #ACFM Trip 13: Crowds
With the pandemic keeping us in isolation, the crew return to discuss crowds. Are they forums for collective joy, or platforms for demagoguery?
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ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Ece Temelkuran on Crowds
Nadia Idle speaks to Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran about the potency of crowds.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 12: The Cosmic Right
The crew discuss the rise of conspiratorial thinking within New Age, spiritual and 'wellness' communities, and the implications this has for the left.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Erik Davis on the Cosmic Right
Jeremy Gilbert talks to Erik Davis, scholar of weird culture, mysticism, and the fertile crossover between esoterica and politics
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 11: Friendship
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the history and theory of friendship, from Aristotle to Elland Road.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Utopian Desire with Judy Thorne
Nadia Idle and Judy Thorne discuss utopian desires over cake and tea.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 10: How It Feels to Be Free
Nadia, Jeremy and Keir search for the feeling of freedom, moving from Nina Simone to Buddhist House via Jeremy Clarkson.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Acid Lockdown
The #ACFM crew discuss life in lockdown including cheese care packs, the moral economy, and the crisis of liberalism.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 9: Utopia
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn discuss utopias, including the Paris Commune, analogue dreamlands and kettle logic.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Musical Cities
The #ACFM crew take you on a tour from Detroit to Manchester, considering the cultural history and politics of the musical city.
ACFM: #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.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: The Comedown
The #ACFM crew take stock in the wake of Labour’s defeat and the dawning of a new year.
ACFM: #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.
ACFM: #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.
ACFM: #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).
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Feminist Consciousness-Raising with Mica Nava
#ACFM's Jeremy Gilbert interviews Professor Mica Nava on her experience of women’s liberation and consciousness raising in London in the 1970s.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 6: Intoxication and Sobriety
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn talk capitalist prohibition and weekend trippers, Romantic escapes from bourgeois subjectivity, and straightedge and tech-world microdosers.
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Theories of Consciousness
The #ACFM crew discuss the history of theories of ideology and consciousness in the radical tradition.