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The #ACFM crew discuss some of the issues and ideas raised by the ongoing Extinction Rebellion protests in London (and around the world). Links to some of the talks and texts discussed in the show: https://rebellion.earth Gail Bradbrook video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wUJFrvnGk Why Civil Resistance Works: https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/IS3301_pp007-044_Stephan_Chenoweth.pdf Graham Jones – Shock Doctrine of the Left: http://politybooks.com/jones10052018/ Roger Hallam Interview: https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/49-roger-hallam-on-extinction-rebellion Global Justice Rebellion: https://www.facebook.com/events/489014714988220/

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn talk intoxication and sobriety: from capitalist prohibition to weekend trippers, from drunk workers to Romantic escapes from bourgeois subjectivity, to straightedge and tech-world microdosers. PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss consciousness raising. Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull. PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481 Tracks featured: Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Johnny Osbourne – Truth and Rights / Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – This Land is Your Land / Arrested Development – Give a Man a Fish / Childish Gambino – This is America / Gregory Porter – 1960 What? / Bernie Sanders – This Land is Your Land Texts referred to: Mark Fisher — Acid Communism (unfinished introduction) / Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism / Mark Fisher and Jeremy Gilbert – Capitalist Realism and Neoliberal Hegemony: A Dialogue / William H. Hinton – Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village / Keir Milburn – Generation Left Other links: Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn – Building Acid Communism – transmediale.de/content/building-acid-communism A description of the Acid Communism Consciousness Raising groups we have been running. Kathie Sarachild – Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon. – womenwhatistobedone.files.wordpress.com/2013/…s.pdf The classic early text on Consciousness Raising from the Women’s Liberation Movement. Institute for Precarious Consciousness – We Are All Very Anxious www.weareplanc.org/blog/we-are-all-very-anxious/ An influential text that proposes anti-precarity consciousness raising groups as the precondition for political action under contemporary conditions.

ACFM’s Jeremy Gilbert interviews Professor Mica Nava on her experience of women’s liberation and consciousness raising in London in the 1970s. Mica is the author books such as Changing Cultures; Feminism, Youth and Consumerism and Visceral Cosmopolitanism Here are some texts by some of the people we mention: Sheila Rowbotham Women’s Consciousness, Man’s World Juliet Mitchell Women’s Estate Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex Christine Delphy Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression Lisa Adkins & Diana Leonard (eds) Sex in Question: French materialist feminism There’s a useful article on social reproduction theory, by Susan Ferguson, here: https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/social-reproduction-theory-ferguson/

The #ACFM crew discuss the history of theories of ideology and consciousness in the radical tradition. Texts referred to include: Karl Marx The German Ideology György Lukacs History and Class Consciousness Vladimir Leinin What is to be Done Antonio Gramsci Selections From the Prison Notebooks Stuart Hall et. al Policing the Crisis Paolo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed Félix Guattari & Suely Rolnick Molecular Revolution in Brazil

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss consciousness raising, with bonus excerpts from an interview with Mica Nava, one of the pioneers of feminist consciousness-raising in the UK. Listen to the full show, with music and archival material, on the Novara Media website or on Soundcloud.

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss love and hate. Listen to the full version of the show, including music and archive material on the Novara Media website: http://novaramedia.com/2019/07/16/acfm-trip-4-love-and-hate/

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the weird left. FULL SHOW: http://novaramedia.com/2019/06/12/acfm-3-the-weird-left/

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the politics of collective joy. FULL SHOW: http://novaramedia.com/2019/05/07/acfm-collective-joy/

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn bring you #ACFM, a new show examining the links between left-wing politics and culture, music and experiences of collective joy. In this episode: what is – or was – the counterculture? What is ‘Acid Corbynism’? And is expanding consciousness anti-political? You can find the Acid Corbynism project on Facebook. PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481 #ACFM Trip 1: Out of the Box