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 Patreon or subscribe on our website.
We discuss, in this episode: the materiality of utopia, love and anger, the revelatory aspects of apocalypse, an overgrowth of discourse without practice, the importance of demediating cultural and political strategies, interrupting capitalist disbelief, the primitive accumulation of a utopian imagination, the sublime differentiated totality of a future socialism, expressing the struggle in our art and writing, the social-existential reality of living without a reward in contemporary capitalism, Henri Lefebvre’sheterotopia, experimenting with utopia in art and left organizing, and how come nobody who is dead wants to work anymore?
Our musical break was “Demonstration” by Omnia Sol. Our reading was Alexander Billet’s “Republic of Dreams” from Locust Review 8. The opening sketch was based on a story from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer. Locust Radio is produced by Omnia Sol and Alexander Billet. It is hosted by Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl. Music by Omnia Sol.
