Episodes

  • ACFM Trip 47: Disruption

    ACFM Trip 47: Disruption
    Nov 17 2024
    Disruption is a byword for success in the tech industry, but when it affects people’s daily routines – say, when JSO activists are slow-marching down a road – it becomes nothing short of criminal. On this Trip, Jem, Nadia and Keir unpack the political uses and abuses of disruption and the ‘creative destruction’ inherent to capitalism. […]
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • ACFM Trip 46: Death

    ACFM Trip 46: Death
    Oct 13 2024
    Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew take a leftwing look at mortality in this Trip, asking how capitalism has altered our approach to the inevitable. Jem, Nadia and Keir think about how industrialised workers were taught to prepare for death, why powerful men […]
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: The Joy Of Fascism

    ACFM Microdose: The Joy Of Fascism
    Sep 15 2024
    A month after racist riots engulfed the country, the ACFM crew ask what fascism – and antifascism – look like in Britain today. Do the riots and counter-protests mark a return to “street politics”? Why didn’t the Labour party align itself with opponents of the pogroms? And how popular are extreme rightwing views among Britain’s frustrated […]
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • ACFM Trip 45: Holidays

    ACFM Trip 45: Holidays
    Aug 25 2024
    Everybody hates a tourist, as Jarvis Cocker once pointed out, and the ACFM gang are no exception in this ACFM Trip exploring the allure of holidays. Keir, Jem and Nadia consider all the different ways we avoid work, from holy days and vay-cays to grand tours and gap yahs. Does travel make fools of us all, or […]
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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • ACFM Trip 44: Humility

    ACFM Trip 44: Humility
    Aug 4 2024
    What happens when you lose? In this Trip, the ACFM crew explore the role of humility – and humiliation – in politics. Should we cultivate humility to cope with political weakness? Is fear of humiliation a product of patriarchy? Can humility help us be better political thinkers and organisers? And who’s the humblest ACFM host of them […]
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: Election ’24 Vibecheck

    ACFM Microdose: Election ’24 Vibecheck
    Jul 9 2024
    The ACFM crew offer their first reactions to Labour’s landslide election win. Can Starmer’s government rescue the public sector? Where will the money come from? And can they make it to a second term? Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. Help us build people-powered media: […]
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • ACFM Microdose: Notes on Camp

    ACFM Microdose: Notes on Camp
    Jun 9 2024
    After investigating the politics of cool on the last Trip episode, the crew turn their attention to another distinctly modern sensibility: camp. Digging into Susan Sontag’s formative 1964 essay on the camp aesthetic, Nadia, Keir and Jem think about how elements of the artificial, the theatrical and the sentimental come together in camp objects, from […]
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • ACFM Trip 43: Cool

    ACFM Trip 43: Cool
    May 26 2024
    What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it obviously wouldn’t be cool. In this Trip, Keir, Jem and Nadia wonder if cool can ever be politically useful, and what happens when cool is used as a disciplining force. With ideas from Pierre Bourdieu, Norman Mailer and Paul Gilroy, and music […]
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    1 hr and 39 mins