The Acid Left

Revol Press present a conversation and metal and the left. They will publish a compendium entitled What's Left of Metal? in late 2025. Editors: David Burke, Mike Watson Authors: Ben Burgis, Thomas Cardwell, Tee Coles, Chris DeMarcus, Holly Royle, Lars Lindemann, Daniel Lukes, Evan Martin-Casler, Ignacio Moreno Fluxà, Jason Myles, Alessandro Rolandi, Jen Sicka, Eric Smialek, Melissa Vincent, Clara...

Matt McManus talks to Bram E. Gieben on liberal Socialism in illiberal times. Matt's The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism is out now: https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Theory-of-Liberal-Socialism/McManus/p/book/9781032647234 Support Revol Press at: https://www.revolpress.com/ And: https://www.patreon.com/c/revolpress

Mike Watson talks to Eliot Rosenstock about Addiction and Capitalism. Hosted by Bram E. Gieben. Buy Mike's book here: https://www.revolpress.com/hungry-ghosts-in-the-machine Theorize and be Damned is a Podcast of Revol Press. Revol Press Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/revolpress

Mike Watson and Bram E. Gieben talk to Rob Faure Walker, author of Love and the Market: How to Recover from the Enlightenment and Survive the Current Crisis. Buy Love and the Market from Bristol University Press here: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/love-and-the-market Pre-order Bram and Mike's books here: https://www.revolpress.com/ Follow Revol Press on Instagram: @revol_press About Rob...

Mike Watson and Bram Gieben interview Adam Turl, writer of the forthcoming Gothic Futurism: And the Working Class (2025, from Revol Press). See details on that book here: https://www.revolpress.com/gothic-futurism See Locus Review here: https://www.locustreview.com Support Revol Press at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/revolpress Adam Turl is an artist and writer living in southern Illinois i...

We spoke to Matt McManus about the dangers of the Radical right wing, covering Trumpianism, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and much more along the way. We also asked Matt about his writing process, gaining valuable insights into his approach. You can find his book The Political Right and Equality (Routledge) here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Right-and-Equality-Turning-Back-the-Tide-of-Egalita...

We talk to Emma Stamm about Mark Fisher, the Limit Experience, Digital Capitalism, internet culture and more. Here are the links to the articles discussed: https://reallifemag.com/who-can-it-be-now/ https://social-epistemology.com/2022/04/18/curiosity-and-anti-economy-a-response-to-florian-jaton-emma-stamm/ http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Stamm.pdf Subscribe to our Patreon h...

Revol Books launch their Theorize and be Damned podcast with a chat with Bram E. Gieben about his forthcoming book The Darkest Timeline. Preorder Bram's book here: https://linktr.ee/thedarkesttimeline Subscribe to the Revol Press Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/revolpress Revol's Instagram: revol_press Portrait of Bram E. Gieben in thumbnail by Lucy Cheyne

We talk with Adam and Tish Turl from the Locust Review quarterly. We  discuss the founding and purpose of Locust Review, the theory of  Critical Irrealism, and their ever-growing installation in The Born  Again Labor Museum. Adam and Tish are longtime friends of the acid left  so this is a fun episode filled with laughs. We also speculate what a  left wing response to Q mi...

In the third in this series Mike Watson talks to Max Ryynänen asking if  the Frankfurt School are too Bourgeois.   Max is a tenured Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and theorist  of Aesthetics, where he focuses on excluded and outsider practices. He published On the Philosophy of Central European Art (2020), in which he  proposes Nobrow art production as a response to...

In the fourth in this series Mike Watson talks to Matt McManus asking if  Adorno's criticism of Existentialism in the 'Jargon of Authenticity'  was fair.  Matt McManus is a Professor of Law and Society at The University of Calgary.   He is also the author of...  The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), AND co author of What  Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, Myth...

The Acid Left talk to Marshall Roderick, son of Rick Roderick. As well  as following up our campaign to get Roderick republished, we ask what  the man was like, what he would have made of Biden and Trump, Lefttube  and much more ! You can read Max Roderick's text on Rick Roderick here: http://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/ Subscribe to the Acid Left's Patreon: patreon.com/acidfleft...

In the second in this series Mike Watson talks to Douglas Kellner,   author of several books on Critical Theory including Herbert Marcuse and  the Crisis of Marxism, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism  and Beyond, and American Nightmare Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and  Authoritarian Populism. Martin Jay is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education...

In this new series Mike Watson talks to Martin Jay, Historian of  philosophy and author of several books on the Frankfurt School including  the Dialectical Imagination and the recent essay collection Splinters in your Eye.    Martin Jay is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.   Books and Essays Discussed:   Martin Jay, Splinters in You Eye -- ht...

We talk to Graham Jones about his podcast Red Enlightenment hosted on  Repeater Radio. Red Enlightenment is an 8 part series about science,  socialism, and spirituality that draws influence from Spinoza and Marx to Michael Brooks and Mark Fisher while asking questions of metaphysics,  ethics, and embodiment in order to move into a Materialist Spirituality. Contains remixes and sampl...

The Acid Left talk to artist and meme maker Teenage Stepdad about his  new show on Means TV called Seizing the Memes, his working process,  politics, art school and the media... and boaner jokes!   Teenage Stepdad is the person behind the hugely popular insta meme  account @teenagestepdad featuring among the best produced memes on the  internet most of which perform satiri...

The Acid Left talk to Admin1 of the theory collective Clandestine Unit for Imaginary Research and curated meme page @cu_media_funhouse.exe. We discuss the ongoing protest in Colombia against tax hikes, state violence, and the government's handling of the worsening health crisis.   We also discuss the disturbing conspiracy theory put forward by the right wing government of "Molecular Revolutio...

Adam Ray Adkins talks to musician and YouTuber Artin Salimi on Mark Fisher, Marxism, Hip Hop, and Islamic Philosophy    Sub to Artin Salimi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpxTegQA3NUq9scE-XQJzww   Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft    facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/   insta: @theacidleft   Twitch: twitch.tv/theac...

The Acid Left's Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins speak to Art House Politics, artist and 'content' creator about memes, art, content, breatdube, politics online and much more.

The Acid Left's Mike Watson speaks to Valentina Tanni, author of Memestetica, a book on meme culture and contemporary art and society, published in Italian by Nero Editions.    https://www.neroeditions.com/product/memestetica/   Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft  facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/  insta: @theacidleft &nbs...

We speak to author Matt McManus and Tuomas Kuusniemi on Nordic and Western welfare models, 'dignity', agency, gaming and art! Matt McManus a Professor of Politics, from Canada, is a Professor of Politics at Whitman College in the USA and has written several books including The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), What Is Postmodern Conservatism? from Zero Books and A Critical Legal Examina...

We speak to author Ben Burgis on the importance of narratives from medicare for all, to Q Anon, to Vaush's so called 'Super Capitalism', and the Capitol protest. Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor at Georgia State University Perimeter College and the author of the best-selling "Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left." MAY 2019 He's a weekly contributor to Jacobin Magazine and hosts the YouTub...

Post election special with David Blacker, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware and author of 'What’s Left of the World' AND 'The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame' and YouTuber Big Bread Brain, who is a Cultural theorist, multimedia artist, and writer. David Blacker: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/authors/david-blacke...

In this episode we are joined by John Duncan to discuss the anti-woke brigade in particular the UK actor turned right wing politician and bad singer Laurence Fox, whether it’s possible to address one’s own white privilege, celebrity politicians, human rights and neoliberalism, and the role of Scotland in the age of European Empire. John Duncan is studying a PhD at the School of Advanced Study at t...

Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins talk to Conrad Hamilton about Tankies, the online left, Marx, Speculative Realism, and consent. Hamilton is co author of the books Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Petserson and What is PostModern Conservatism. He recently finished writing his PhD thesis entitled Marx Contra Subjectivity under the supervision of Catherine Malabou at Paris VIII. You can...