Locust Radio

In Locust Radio 31,  Tish and Adam read poems from the forthcoming issue, discuss Trumpism and art in Venice, and try to unpack the editorial for Locust Review  13. Tish and Adam also listen to the song “Dortn” by Sister Wife Sex Strike .  Discussed in this episode: Alma Allen ; Suvrat Arora, “People are using AI to talk to God,” BBC (October 18, 2025) ; Editorial, “Lucky 13,” Locust Review 13 (Wi...

In Locust Radio episode #30, Tish Turl interviews fellow Locust comrade, Adam Turl, on their new book, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth (Revol Press, May 2, 2025). You can order the book from Revol Press , Amazon , or find it at other booksellers. Artists, ideas, books, writers, artworks and other stuff discussed in this episode:  Adam Turl, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from...

In this episode of Locust Radio , Adam Turl interviews R. Faze, author of the My Body series published in Locust Review . This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with Locust members and collaborators on contemporary artistic strategies. R. Faze’s My Body series in Locust Review : R. Faze, “I Live an Hour from My Body,” Locust Review 4  (2021) R. Faze, “My Body Got a New Job,” Locust Review...

In episode 28 of Locust Radio , Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic...

In episode 27 of Locust Radio , Adam Turl is joined by Tish Turl – writer, editor, artist, poet and member of the Locust collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a...

In episode 26 of Locust Radio , Adam Turl is joined by Omnia Sol – a comic, video, and sound artist in Chicago. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future book by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropoc...

In this episode of Locust Radio we are flipping the script a bit. Instead of Tish, Laura and Adam interviewing someone, Tish and Adam are interviewed by Locust’s own Alexander Billet. They discuss, among other things, the Born Again Labor Museum , Adam and Tish’s ongoing sited conceptual art and installation project in southern Illinois. An edited and abridged transcript of the interview is availa...

In this episode of Locust Radio , we present a sound collage composed of people speaking in solidarity with Palestine at Carbondale (Illinois) City Council meetings – as well as the city’s attempts to silence them.  Community members had been lobbying the council for a ceasefire resolution as one of the council members had pledged to support Palestinian rights when she was endorsed by the Southern...

In this episode of Locust Radio , we hear an audio essay, “Escape from Normal Island,” by Locust comrade and author Adam Marks . Marks provides an extended exegesis of “normal island,” otherwise known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island. Discussion includes: the very normal decade-long prelude to the 2024 UK elections; the possibility that the Conservative Party might cease...

In this episode of Locust Radio , we read excerpts from Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer (1950); listen to readings from Locust Review (2022-2023) — R. Faze’s “My Body’s Portal to Another Dimension;” Adam Marks’ “Rites of Obodena;” and Tish Turl’s “Immortality Beaver” ( Stink Ape Resurrection Primer ). We also listen to music from Pet Mosquito , Omnia Sol , and Shrvg . Laura, Tish, and Adam  discuss Pr...

Our first segment focuses on the history of socialism and science fiction (SF) in the early to mid-20th century United States, in particular the novels of George Allan England and the Popular Front SF of the Michelists in the 1930s and 1940s. Our second segment discusses the efforts of organizers in the Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity (CARE) to help trans and queer persons — targeted by the...

In this Locust Radio “Special Report” — a preview of a segment from forthcoming episode twenty-one — we discuss organizing mutual aid and solidarity with trans and queer persons being forced to flee the increasingly draconian laws and regulations being put forward (and often passed) across the country. According to some studies, as many as 130,000 to 260,000 queer and trans people have already bee...

In this episode, recorded downwind from an increasingly immolated Canada, we interview Alexander Billet , author of the book,  Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis from 1968 Press (2022). We discuss music, the city, cultural fragmentation and the accelerated alienation of neoliberal culture, the “blue note,” Fred Ho’s concept of kreolization, the digital algorithm as cap...

In this episode of Locust Radio, Tish, Laura, and Adam discuss the theme of, and editorial for, Locust Review #10, “The Monsters Are Coming ,” the social construction of the monstrous, the idea of “solidarity with monsters,” differentiating between “their” monsters and “ours,” and how every accusation from the far-right is an admission of guilt.  We also touch on the obliviousness of the British r...

In this episode we listen to music from the Whistle Pigs, These Magnificent Tapeworms, The Flowers of Evil, and Omnia Sol, and have readings of stories and poetry from Tish Turl, Donald A. Wolheim, and Adam Ray Adkins. And Tish, Adam, and Laura discuss collective social PTSD, the public freakouts Reddit, an increasing intolerability of daily life, the indifference of the political center, the prim...

This is a preview of the second half of our Halloween episode. To hear the full episode become a Locust Review patron. In the second half of our  Halloween episode our digital recording system continually glitches in a gesture of solidarity to help free us from the grip of capitalist machines. In between glitches we brainstorm about gothic and hauntological irrealist gestures, including the p...

In this Halloween episode of Locust Radio , Tish and Adam discuss folk horror, folk devils, and ghosts,  listen to music from Fat JackRabbit , Omnia Sol , Hans Predator , and Worthless Scarecrow , and hear poetry from Mike Linaweaver and Leslie Lea. Our co-host Laura Fair-Schulz was out sick and we look forward to their return in the next episode. Our discussion starts with the story of a spe...

For the second half of our show -- which first aired for Locust patrons on December 29, 2020 -- Tish Turl and Adam Ray Adkins share more of their work. Adam Turl, Tish Turl, and Alex Billet also talk with Omnia Sol and Adam Ray Adkins about Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and narrative conceptual art, and why the Peoria Cookie Monster mural is so much more interesting than those stupid fucking monoliths t...

In this second half of episode three (originally posted to our Patrons in December, 2020) Adam, Tish, and Alex share some of our current writing and research, including a report on a much-overlooked group of writers who tried to claim sci-fi for communism in the 1930s, and an overview of the work of Hugo-nominated fantasy writer Chuck Tingle. You can listen to the first half of the episode, "Four...

From the second half of our second episode — initially made available to our subscribers and patrons on December 11, 2020 — we discuss Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Roger Corman’s 1964 film adaptation, in light of then-president Donald Trump catching Covid. We also read a few more answers from the Irrealist Workers Survey and riffed a bit about how the goths were right about (a...

This is a preview/excerpt from the second half of Locust Radio 16. To get the full second-half subscribe to Locust or join our Patreon. In the second half of episode 16, Alex McIntyre, Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl discuss demanding our mayors fight bears, abolishing Wednesdays, mildly amusing riots, exploding the continuum of history, that Cahokia was not a hunter-gatherer society a...

Our guest this month is Alex McIntyre from the Irrealist Combat League , Revolutionary Education Distro , and formerly the Cooper Point Journal . We discuss the idea of politics as theater, the irrealist rejection of the world as-is , Leninist fan-fiction, theatrical action (in a Brechtian sense) vs. a capitalist digital gesamtkunstwerk, sectariana, “paper sales,” reactionary vs. revolutionary sui...

Our guest for the second half of Locust Radio episode 15 is our very own Alexander Billet. Alex is a writer, artist, and editor at Locust Review . They join us in the virtual Locust studio to discuss the editorial for Locust Review 8, “The Utopia Principle,” which Alex took the lead on writing. This is a compilation of excerpts from the episode. To hear the full episode join the Locust Review Patr...

After the opening reading, a sketch based on an excerpt from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer, Tish and Adam interview Ken LeBlanc, a rank-and-file member of the Main Street Carbondale, Illinois Starbucks union organizing committee. The Starbucks Workers United organizing effort went public in Carbondale in late May. LeBlanc discusses organizing, how to start a union, the grievances of her co-wor...

This is an excerpt from the second half of Locust Radio episode 14. To get the full episode subscribe to Locust Review . In the second half of the episode, we continue to talk to Crystal Stella Becerril about making art as a human compulsion vs. making art for pleasure, how pleasure is distorted by capitalism, art and community, organizing for reproductive rights and unions, making art for our com...