Episodios

  • ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi

    ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi
    Sep 28 2025
    After last week’s ACFM Trip to the Future, Jem and Keir reconvene to talk about science fiction. Is sci-fi a reaction to the “time-space compression” of the present? Is it inherently progressive? How did dystopian and paranoids visions of the future come to dominate sci-fi? Was Arthur C. Clarke an early acid communist? Find all […]
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    1 h y 59 m
  • ACFM Trip 54: The Future

    ACFM Trip 54: The Future
    Sep 21 2025
    What if we stopped treating the future like a speculative asset and started trying to actually build and prepare? The ACFM gang look to the horizon in this Trip episode. Did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? […]
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    1 h y 57 m
  • ACFM Microdose: Gardening

    ACFM Microdose: Gardening
    Aug 31 2025
    Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? The ACFM gang sketch out a weird-left history of gardening, from the walled gardens of paradise to the tarmacked lawns of suburban Britain. Find the books, music and Dunmore Pineapple mentioned in the show: https://novara.media/acfm Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support
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    1 h y 41 m
  • ACFM Trip 53: Growth

    ACFM Trip 53: Growth
    Aug 3 2025
    Keir Starmer claims that growth is the only cure for a country in decline. But why is it the central obsession of modern capitalist economies? And can we think our way out of it before our planet runs out of resources? Nadia, Keir and Jem offer their weird-left take on growth, degrowth, radical abundance, ecomodernism […]
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    1 h y 22 m
  • ACFM Microdose: Social Reproduction

    ACFM Microdose: Social Reproduction
    Jul 13 2025
    Following their Trip episode about Cleaning, the ACFM crew take a closer look at the hidden labour that keeps the economy running. Would public canteens solve 80% of our problems? Find the books and music mentioned in the show: https://novara.media/acfm Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support
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    1 h y 8 m
  • ACFM Trip 52: Cleaning

    ACFM Trip 52: Cleaning
    Jun 29 2025
    In the socialist utopia of our dreams, who exactly is doing the cleaning? Nadia, Jem and Keir confront a tricky topic in this ACFM Trip. With music from X-Ray Spex, The B-52s and more, they offer their weird-left perspective on everything from dirty dishes and bodily secretions to circumcision, pollution and the caste system. Find […]
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    2 h
  • ACFM Microdose: Superheroes

    ACFM Microdose: Superheroes
    Jun 2 2025
    Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem return with a Microdose focusing on the masked, the winged and the mutated. Why are superheroes such a cultural mainstay? What psychological and political desires do they fulfil? Are they inherently reactionary? From Superman to Batman, Wonder Woman to 2000AD, it’s a weird left reading […]
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    2 h y 1 m
  • ACFM Trip 51: Heroes

    ACFM Trip 51: Heroes
    May 18 2025
    The ACFM crew offer a weird-left perspective on the role of the hero (and heroine) in politics and culture. Nadia, Jem and Keir assess theories of Great Men, the myth of the hero’s journey and the lure of the anti-hero with ideas from Weber and Hegel and music from Tina Turner and Sonic Youth. Find […]
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    1 h y 50 m