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 w…

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 pro…

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 Conserv…

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…

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 Phi…

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…

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 Spiritua…

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 w…

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 ri…

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/th…

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: @the…

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 Conservat…

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 con…

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.johnh…

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 st…

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 supervi…

Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins host Brian Francis Culkin. Brian is a writer and film director. He has written over 10 books and directed three films. His books include “On Heroin,” “Postscript on Boxing,” and “The Ayahuasca Dialogues”.He lives and works in the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon where he is involved in plant based diet healing …

In this episode of The Acid Left podcast hosts Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins talk to artist, meme producer and twitch streamer Joshua Citarella about memes, Cardi B's WAP, Ben Shapiro, Doomer Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.You can read more about Joshua Citarella here:http://joshuacitarella.com/ He streams here: https://www.twitch.tv/joshuacitarella…

Adam Ray Adkins and Mike Watson host Eliot Rosenstock, author of ''Zizek in the Clinic' for the first 'The Acid Left' Podcast.They speak about Zizek, LSD, Lacanian and Freudian analysis, Mark Fisher, mental health, and sobriety.Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/insta: @…

Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins host Dr. James Cooke, Neuroscientist, writer & speaker, who focuses on consciousness, meditation, psychedelic states, science and spirituality.You can see more about Dr. James Cooke's work here: https://www.drjamescooke.com/Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.faceb…

Mike Watson, Adam Ray Adkins and Terry Tapp Host Matt McManus, author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave). Matt is also co author of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, and Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books.Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://w…