Friendly question: who have we seen, at the present moment, mobilising powerfully? Currently I live in Birmingham, and the biggest demos in the past 10 years have been a Palestine demo in 2014, the BLM demo in 2020, and all the recent Palestine demos

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Bygone Dreams

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As We Fell From Our Radiant Palaces

In the middle of a grave cost of living crisis, bosses at Royal Mail, BT and elsewhere are imposing pay increases on workers way below inflation. On Downstream, Aaron Bastani speaks to CWU General Secretary Dave Ward about corporate greed, the shadowy world of CEOs, the return of the working class and how he plans to coordinate direct action beyond his union’s own disputes.

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Downstream: The Moral Crisis in Corporate Britain w/ Dave Ward

Géranomachie Acoustique(2022)
for 15 musicians
Commissioned by the Lemanic Modern Ensemble
Conductor: Pierre Bleuse
Premiere on September 27 2022 at the  Franz Liszt concert hall, Geneva

Live recording: Jérôme Vavasseur

Géranomachie Acoustique(2022)

Adam Shatz joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination'. 

We talked about why Adam, though a huge admirer of Edward Said and his classic work Orientalism, feels that some of the work subsequently inspired by Said has failed to give a well rounded picture of middle eastern societies in all their complexity. We also talked about why Adam thinks that there can be value in reading reactionary writers whose politics we might abhor, and why nuance and complexity are not the enemies of radical political commitment. Finally, we discussed the ways in which early experiences of trauma can be the starting point for creativity.

Writers and missionaries w/ Adam Shatz

Richard Seymour returns to PTO to discuss the crisis and background to the crisis in Israel-Palestine. A little over a week ago US national security advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking at the the Atlantic festival, rattled off a list of positive developments in the Middle East which he argued had allowed the Biden administration to focus on issues elsewhere in the world. Referencing the truce in Yemen, a decline in hostility in the US's relationship with Iran and what he characterised as America's stable presence in Iraq - where around 2,500 US soldiers remain -  he commented that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

On Saturday Sullivan's comments came back to haunt him as Hamas carried out an unprecedentedly large scale breakout from the Gaza strip and launched attacks on the Israeli military and Israeli civilians that have claimed over 1200 lives at the time of recording. Deaths on the Palestinian side from Israel's predictable assault on Gaza are heading towards parity, and undoubtedly those numbers will escalate dramatically as Israel continues its air campaign and prepares to launch a ground assault.  The following interview with Richard Seymour was recorded earlier today - the 11th of October - and before it became apparent that a national unity government would be formed in Israel.

Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict

Ever felt like there's too much change these days? Don't worry, you're not (necessarily) becoming more conservative. In this episode, Nadia, Jem and Keir think about the ebb and flow of political currents, social movements and our inner lives. 

What's the difference between being still and being stuck? When does a campaign turn into a movement? Why do we talk about feminism coming in waves? How can you tell you're approaching a tipping point? The gang turn such abstract questions into concrete history, with examples from punk to Corbyn, Daoism to degrowth.

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Books: David Easton – A Systems Analysis of Political Life / The Free Association – Moments of Excess / Aristide Zolberg – Moments of Madness / Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition / Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari - Anti-Oedipus; A Thousand Plateaus / Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine

Music: Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up / Hiroshi Yoshimura - Urban Snow / Gang of Four - At Home He’s A Tourist / Moor Mother - Meditation Rag / Björk - It's Oh So Quiet / Tony Scott - Za Zen / The Raincoats - The Dance of Hopping Mad

ACFM Trip 38: Movement and Stillness

Ryan and Todd discuss Ludwig Wittgenstein's project in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. They begin by looking at this project on its own terms and taking stock of its grand ambitions. Then they examine its intersection with the concerns of psychoanalysis and dialectics.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Music has the uncanny power to stir up big feelings, which makes it an obvious vehicle for political statements of hope, anger, despair, or how to cast your vote. In this Microdose episode to accompany ACFM's Trip on Protest, Jem takes us through 60 years of plugged-in protest music – no strumming folkies or broadside ballads this time. 

From hip-hop campaign boosters to new wave takes on British imperialism, from anti-landlord lyrics to a requiem for the post-war dream, it's a narrated playlist revealing the manifold methods of musical persuasion.

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Music: Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto (1969) / Iggy and the Stooges - Ballad of Hollis Brown (1973) / Max Romeo - Rent Crisis (1974) / Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (1978) / Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Oliver’s Army (1979) / Pink Floyd - The Gunner’s Dream (1983) / Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (1984) / Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - Jesse (1984) / Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (1987) / Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug of the Nation (1991) / Asian Dub Foundation - Jericho (1995) / Le Tigre - My My Metrocard (1999) / Ms. Dynamite - It Takes More (2002) / Gina Birch - Feminist Song (2021) / The Coup - The Guillotine (2015)

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

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ACFM Microdose: Plugged-In Protest w/ Jeremy Gilbert

Ryan and Todd unpack Jacques Lacan's most well-known seminar--Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. In doing so, they focus on Lacan's own exclusion as a starting point and then delve into two concepts that Lacan does not list among the fundamental ones--subjectivity and the objet a.

Seminar 11

Robbie Martin's long-awaited QAnon episode of Media Roots Radio is finally here! This episode is in 2-parts, the 2nd part titled 'WWG1WGA Along with a Psyop, QAnon’s Grasp on the ‘Woke’ Empire Baby Mind & Weaponizing Satanic Panic' is now unlocked: https://bit.ly/3xiAWcx

Part 1: The Origins of QAnon, Follow the White Rabbit Into a Deeper Layer of the MAGA cult delves into the chronology of how the Podesta e-mail leaks eventually led to what we now as the anonymous self labeled 'patriot' Qanon. Robbie also delves extensively into what QAnon is and what purpose it might serve and also speculates about who or what groups may be behind it. Figures like Alex Jones, Jerome Corsi, Roger Stone, Erik Prince & Steve Pieczenik are examined as potential participants in the QAnon psyop and the idea of it being connected to Trump's administration is taken seriously as a possibility.

Intro Song: Fluorescent Grey 'Making the Sand Glow'

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ACFM Trip 38: Movement and Stillness

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