Locust Radio

About Locust Radio

Locust Radio is Locust Review’s monthly podcast on the weird, the political, and where they intersect in fiction, art, poetry and creativity. Hosted by editors Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Locust Radio features discussions of the radical weird, history and current events, interviews with artists, writers, and musicians, and readings of conceptual art, poetry and fiction. Read more at locustreview.com. To get bonus content and subscribe to Locust Review, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/locustreview

Publisher

Locust Review

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Sept 2020

Latest episode

2 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Dec 2025

   Episode 31 - Lucky 13

   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 (https://sisterwifesexstrike.com/). Discussed in this episode: Alma Allen (https://www.kasmingallery.com/artists/34-alma-allen/); Suvrat Arora, “People are using AI to talk to God,” BBC (October 18, 2025) (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251016-people-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-god); Editorial, “Lucky 13,” Locust Review 13 (Winter 2025/2026); Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (Harper Collins, 2025); Timothy Binkley, “Autonomous Creations: Birthing Intelligent Agents,” Leonardo 31.5 (1998), 333-336; Ben Davis, “What is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump’s Venice Biennale Pick?,” Artnet (November 25, 2025) (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/american-arts-conservancy-venice-biennale-2719076); Benoit Dillet, “Technofascism and the AI Stage of Late Capitalism,” Blog of the APA (American Philosophical Association), (March 10, 2025) (https://blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/10/technofascism-and-the-ai-stage-of-late-capitalism/); Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917); Robert M. Geraci, "Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76.1 (March 2008), 138-166; Jesse Clyde Howard (https://www.redwedgemagazine.com/evicted-art-blog/wanteda-socialist-prophet-in-the-wilderness-we-need-our-own-jesse-clyde-howard); Holly Lewis, “Towards AI Realism: Opening Notes on Machine Learning and Our Collective Future,” Spectre (June 7, 2024) (https://spectrejournal.com/toward-ai-realism/); Alex Press, “US Unions Take on Artificial Intelligence,” Jacobin (November 8, 2024) (https://jacobin.com/2024/11/union-contracts-artificial-intelligence-workers); Michael A. Rosenthal, “Benjamin’s Wager on Modernity: Gambling and the Arcades Project,” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 87.3 (2012), 261-278; Victor Tangermann, “AI Now Claiming to Be God,” Futurism (September 16, 2025) (https://futurism.com/ai-claiming-god); Adam Turl, “All is Concealed: CAM’s Direct Drive,” West End Word (October 5, 2016) (https://www.timesnewspapers.com/westendword/arts_and_entertainment/all-is-concealed-cam-146-s-147-direct-drive-148/article_9394404f-b1f8-58c0-ad35-da77c7569e25.html); Adam Turl, “Selling Out,” Locust Review 13 (Winter 2025/2026); Tish Turl, “Elegy for the Faithful Mapmakers,” Locust Review 13 (Winter 2025/2026); Gareth Watkins, “AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism,” New Socialist (February 9, 2025) (https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/); Luke Winkie, “Lost Vegas,” Slate (November 18, 2025) (https://slate.com/business/2025/11/las-vegas-travel-sphere-hotel-donald-trump.html); Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Little, Brown and Company, 2025)

2. 

   3 May 2025

   Episode #30 - Evicted from Heaven and Earth

   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 (https://www.revolpress.com/preorder-books/p/gothic-capitalism-art-evicted-from-heaven-and-earth), Amazon (https://a.co/d/aOTQqEy), 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 Heaven and Earth (Revol Press 2025) (https://www.revolpress.com/preorder-books/p/gothic-capitalism-art-evicted-from-heaven-and-earth); Ernst Fischer, The Necessity of Art (Verso, 2020) (https://www.versobooks.com/products/2141-the-necessity-of-art?srsltid=AfmBOop5sLVU6J9K3HFWqvkuWi7ZgvPNmI8-nFtu-VtxSIbZXjKDuYbb); Boris Groys, “The Weak Universalism,” e-flux (2010); Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936) (https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm); Walter Benjamin, “Theses on History” (1940) (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm); John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972); Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative (2009); Mark Fisher, Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (2018); Donna Harraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto); Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848) (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/); Rena Rädle & Vladan Jeremić (https://raedle-jeremic.net/); Joseph Beuys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys); John Heartfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heartfield); Anupam Roy (https://anupamroy.com/); Richard Hamilton (https://www.autumnhouse.org/books/discordant/); R. Faze (https://www.locustreview.com/online?author=6188344e5173bc7a406d46d2); Born Again Labor Museum (https://www.bornagainlabor.com/); Amiri Baraka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Baraka); Omnia Sol (https://omniasol.art/); Sister Wife Sex Strike (https://sisterwifesexstrike.com/); Dada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada); Judy Jordan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Jordan); Bertolt Brecht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht); Claire Bishop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Bishop); The Sublime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)#:~:text=November%202017),calculation%2C%20measurement%2C%20or%20imitation.); “Third Places;” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place) Fluxus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus); Abstract Expressionism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism); The Sopranos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos); The Wire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire); Surrealism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism); Charlie Jane Anders (https://www.charliejaneanders.com/); Emily St. John Mandel (https://www.emilymandel.com/); Pier Paolo Pasolini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini), La Ricotta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8tOMYGWWo) (1963) and The Hawks and the Sparrows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8MszqeIQE)(1966); Boots Riley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_Riley); Federal Arts Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Art_Project); Luis Buñuel, The Exterminating Angel (1962) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exterminating_Angel); The Artists Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists_Union); Voltaire, Candide (1759) (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942-h/19942-h.htm); Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude); Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet (1989) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_a_Black_Planet); Beethoven, Symphony #9 (1822-1824) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)); Sam Esmail, Leave the World Behind (2023) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_the_World_Behind_(film)); David Cronenberg, Videodrome (1983) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome); Richard Seymour, Disaster Nationalism (2024) (https://www.google.com/search?q=Richard+Seymour%2C+Disaster+Nationalism&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS1156US1157&oq=Richard+Seymour%2C+Disaster+Nationalism&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIKCAEQLhjHAxiABDIKCAIQABjHAxiABDIKCAMQABiABBiiBDIKCAQQABiABBiiBDIKCAUQABiABBiiBDIHCAYQABjvBdIBBzg0NmowajSoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) Produced by Tish Turl, Adam Turl, Omnia Sol and Alexander Billet. Theme by Omnia Sol, Drew Franzblau and Adam Turl. Hosts include Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz and Adam Turl.

3. 

   14 Nov 2024

   Episode 29 - Dead Bees on Hot Cement

   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) (https://www.locustreview.com/online/i-live-an-hour-from-my-body) R. Faze, “My Body Got a New Job,” Locust Review 5 (2021) (https://www.locustreview.com/online/my-body-got-a-new-job) R. Faze, “My Body Planned Something,” Locust Review 6 (2021) (https://www.locustreview.com/online/my-body-planned-something) R. Faze, “My Body, Interrogated,” Locust Review 7 (2022) R. Faze, “My Body’s Long Term Plan,” Locust Review 8 (2022) (https://www.locustreview.com/online/my-bodys-long-term-plan) R. Faze, “My By Body’s Revenge Plan,” Locust Review 9 (2022) (https://www.locustreview.com/online/my-bodys-revenge-pla) R. Faze, “My Body Found a Portal to Another Dimension,” Locust Review 10 (2023) (https://www.locustreview.com/online/my-body-found-a-portal-to-another-dimension) R. Faze, “My Body’s Claims, Verified,” Locust Review 11 (2024) Some other writers, artists, texts and artworks discussed: Mikhail Bahktin, Rabelais and His World (1984); (https://monoskop.org/images/7/70/Bakhtin_Mikhail_Rabelais_and_His_World_1984.pdf) Bertolt Brecht; (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht) Raymond Chandler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler);  Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working-Class (2010); (https://thenewpress.com/books/stayin%E2%80%99-alive) Rene Descartes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes); W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903); (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm) Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) (https://files.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf); Karl Marx, The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts (1844) (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm); Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (1993) (https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X); Pablo Picasso (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso) and Cubism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism); Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson” (1839); (https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the_story_of_william_wilson.pdf) Francois Rabalais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (1564); (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1200/1200-h/1200-h.htm) Don Siegal, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Sister Wife Sex Strike, “From the River to the Sea (2024); (https://sisterwifesexstrike.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-river-to-the-sea-2) Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43/43-h/43-h.htm) Locust Radio hosts include Tish Turl (https://www.turlstudio.art/), Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl (https://www.turlstudio.art/). Locust Radio is produced by Alexander Billet (https://alexanderbillet.substack.com/), Adam Turl (https://www.turlstudio.art/), and Omnia Sol (https://omniasol.art/). Opening music and sound elements by Omnia Sol (https://omniasol.art/) and Adam Turl (https://www.turlstudio.art/).

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

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Spotify

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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