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Festivals. The perfect embodiment of the ACFM aesthetic, even social politics... or are they? As the season comes to a close, Nadia, Jem and Keir ask themselves what festivals are really about. Is it music? Camping? The breakdown of everyday hierachies? Or is it just 20,000 people standing in a field?

With help from Bakhtin’s concept of the “carnivalesque” and Bataille's “excess”, the gang discuss hippies and punks, counterculture and commerce, and the role of Glastonbury in the national imagination.

Music under discussion comes from Banco De Gaia, Hawkwind, The Magic Mushroom Band and many more patchouli-scented wanderers.

Music: David Bowie – 'Memory of a Free Festival' / Pulp – 'Sorted For E’s and Wizz' / Seize The Day – 'With My Hammer I Break The Chains' / Hawkwind – 'Silver Machine' / The Magic Mushroom Band – 'Revolution' / Ozric Tentacles – 'Dissolution (The Clouds Disperse)' / Culture Shock – 'Stonehenge' / Autechre - 'Flutter' / Banco De Gaia – Excerpt from Deep Live

Books & articles: Mikhail Bakhtin – Rabelais and His World / Jeremy Gilbert & Ewan Pearson – Discographies: Dance Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound / Georges Bataille – The Accursed Share / Frederic Jameson – Archaeologies of the Future / Penny Rimbaud – The Last of the Hippies

ACFM Trip 36: Festivals

We’re going back to basics on Novara FM this autumn with a series about the big one: class. What does it mean to look at the world through the lens of class in the 2020s, an era of precarious work, rising inequality and elusive social mobility?

Three classy thinkers join FM to investigate: political researcher Nihal ElAasar, cultural critic Juliet Jacques and writer and Verso editor John Merrick. They begin the series with an introspective session on the meaning of class today, drawing on their very different upbringings in Egypt, the home counties and the north of England.

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Why should the left care about the existence of aliens? The ACFM gang explore the impact of the paranormal on politics in this Trip episode featuring music from Sun Ra, The Carpenters and true believers Blink 182.

What are the connections between UFO conspiracies and right-wing thought? Why do some communists think aliens will bring about world revolution? Does Fermi's paradox mean we're not alone? And can Keir and Jem convince Nadia to give a crap about ufology?

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Books: Mark Pilkington - Mirage Men / Susan Lepselter - The Resonance of Unseen Things / Carl Jung - Flying Saucers / Erich von Däniken - Chariot of the Gods / H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds / A. M. Gittlitz - I Want to Believe / Kim Stanley Robinson - Aurora

Music:  Blink 182 - Aliens Exist / Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater / Sun Ra - Interplanetary Music / The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Space / Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive / Flying Saucer Attack - The Season is Ours / Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien / The Byrds - Hey Mr. Space Man / Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

ACFM Trip 40: UFOs

Poborsk - Vaporcito
Mesak - TKI93
Gooooose - Rusted silicone
Glafouk - Ouagadougou
Poborsk - demo piste 04
!? - Bit crushing
!? - The thing
Freeform - Stander
U Day - Ghetto bomb
The Orb - We're pastie to be grill you
Wankers United - 3X35
XY0815 - Failed to create boot file
Cuverville - Slata Méchouia 
DMX Krew - Bonkers go back to school
Mesak - Saturated
Zaliva D - Dao yao zui
Luke Vibert - Tomitron
DMX Krew - Show me
Daniel Savio - Jihad ahkbar
Mantronix - Boogie Down Bronx
Caustic Window - 101 rainbows (ambient)

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The 2000s were a decade of education, regeneration, falling inequality and Dizzee Rascal. 

But beneath the fleeting prosperity lurked a culture of cruelty. It was palpable in politicians' disdain for single mothers, in the media's vilification of chavs, and in TV producers' obsession with pointing and laughing at just about everyone – but don't worry, it's only a joke.

Juliet Jacques is joined by cultural critic Owen Hatherley and Novara Media's Ash Sarkar to talk about why the Noughties were so nasty, from TV and music to architecture and politics.

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Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties w/ Owen Hatherley & Ash Sarkar

Last time on ACFM, the gang explored the impact of UFOs on politics, from deep-state conspiracies to the Posadists.

But to really understand how aliens influence our thought – and what our belief in E.T. says about ourselves – we have to go to the movies.

In this Microdose, Keir, Jem and Nadia sweep through a century of aliens on screen, from Martian invaders to Mulder & Scully.

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<strong>Films, TV & Books:</strong> H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Quatermass, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Blob, Solaris, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, The Thing, E.T., They Live, The X-Files, Men in Black, The Host, Godzilla, Cloverfield, District 9, Sector Zero, The Expanse, Arrival, Nope

Produced by Matt Huxley.

ACFM Microdose: Aliens on Screen

Why is it so expensive to rent in the UK? In a divisive new book, barrister Nick Bano places the blame squarely on price-gouging landlords, rejecting the conventional wisdom that calls for more new housing as a solution to the crisis. He goes head to head with Novara Live’s Michael Walker to explain the Marxist thinking behind Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis, out on Verso Books.

This episode is produced in collaboration with the Crash Course With Michael Walker podcast.

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Novara FM: What's Really Causing the Housing Crisis? w/ Nick Bano

A lot of people are saying that fascism is on the rise. But what are we pointing to when we call a system, or a person, fascist? On this Trip, Nadia, Keir and Jem map out a complicated ideology, from its roots in 19th century industrialisation to its resurgence in ethnonationalism and eco-apartheid.

Exploring how different political traditions try to explain fascism, they look for signs of the f-word in contemporary politics and play music from Woody Guthrie, Heaven 17 and Black Sabbath.

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Books & films: Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism / Dan Evans – A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie / Karl Marx - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte / Antonio Gramsci - Prison Notebooks / Klaus Theweleit - Male Fantasies / Freud - Group Psychology in the Analysis of the Ego / Jeremy Gilbert - Common Ground / Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams - Hegemony Now / Theodor Adorno et al - The Authoritarian Personality / Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism /Wilhelm Reich - The Mass Psychology of Fascism / Born In Flames (1983) / Alberto Toscano – Late Fascism / Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Music: Soccer96 - ‘I Was Gonna Fight Fascism’ / Heaven 17 - ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’ / John McCutcheon - ‘The Abraham Lincoln Brigade’ / Black Sabbath - ‘Fairies Wear Boots’ / Underground System - ‘Bella Ciao’ / Dead Kennedys – ‘Nazi Punks Fuck Off’ / Woody Guthrie – ‘All You Fascists Bound to Lose’

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ACFM Trip 42: Fascism

How do mainstream politicians and pundits contribute to the normalisation of far-right ideas, even as they claim to reject racism and populism? That's one of many vital questions asked by Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon in their book Reactionary Democracy.

Following ACFM's recent Trip about Fascism, Keir and Jem speak to Aaron and Aurelien about the making of the "woke conspiracy", how illiberal politics absorbs liberal rhetoric, and why the left has to stop falling for reactionary narratives – and give up "debating" the far-right.

Produced by Matt Huxley.

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ACFM Microdose: Reactionary Democracy w/ Aaron Winter & Aurelien Mondon

Mystery Dance this month was a 2 hour children’s music special, curated by Vincent Privat of Diznord Records, made only with tracks made by children and teenagers.

ACFM Microdose: Aliens on Screen

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