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Adam Ray Adkins is a multi-media artist based in Florida. Their work has appeared in several issues of Locust Review.

Catch up loser, I made a playlist for the sacrifice!

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

2020 mixed media on canvas. Inspired by chapter two of Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkimer and Adorno for the Beyond Linguistics Reading Group. See the discussion and more original artworks inspired by the text on the Theorywave Nights YouTube channel.

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Reason Has Its Limits

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Simpler Times

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Artwork by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #3.

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We Build the Kingdom

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Inside Every Horse Is Two Women

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Adam Ray Adkins. Art appeared in Locust #3.

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A Brain Between the Three of Them

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #3.

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What Sustains Us?

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Terraforming the Desert of the Real

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

2020. Mixed Media on paper 24×18 in. Appeared in Locust #3.

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Nostalgia Anxiety

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Fascist Pizza
Editorial
Feb 12, 2025
Fascist Pizza
Editorial
Feb 12, 2025

American fascism has a plastic shopping mall nostalgia. It is the fascism, not of a young empire thwarted, but an empire in decline. It is, at one level, a photograph of an abandoned Pizza Hut with the caption “This is what they took from us.”

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Editorial
Feb 12, 2025
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Theses on the Theatrical Party
Irrealist Combat League
Nov 28, 2023
Theses on the Theatrical Party
Irrealist Combat League
Nov 28, 2023

The Theatrical Party embraces the organization of pessimism in contrast to the false optimism of the left. To be a revolutionary pessimist is to separate the political actor from their role. It is this separation which, in the epic theater of Brecht, invited a critical outlook on the performance from its participants and spectators — the first step in the transformation of spectators into collaborators, a task integral to both theater and the forging of a revolutionary party.

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Irrealist Combat League
Nov 28, 2023
Constructing Counter-Imaginaries
Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
Oct 31, 2023
Constructing Counter-Imaginaries
Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
Oct 31, 2023

We want a record of the real in the work — as in the cotton and ash — as well as reclamations of our history and imaginaries constructed against the limits of working-class imaginations by capitalist realism. So the individual pieces are sort of vignettes of class pathos and poetry, often in an irreal idiom, and all together representing, as much as we can, the limitless expansive nature of these stories in aggregate. 

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Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
Oct 31, 2023
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My Body's Claims, Verified
R. Faze
Apr 23, 2025
My Body's Claims, Verified
R. Faze
Apr 23, 2025

The mansion had to be more than twenty thousand square feet, with five wings; it took up two acres. In the backyard, a giant infinity pool overlooking downtown L.A., a jacuzzi big enough for a football team, an industrial-size outdoor kitchen that could feed two hundred people, thirty-two-seat table made of rough-cut red wood with an eight-inch-thick top, three brick fireplaces, eight open firepits, two pizza ovens, and more trees and flowerbeds than in a Vegas resort.

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R. Faze
Apr 23, 2025
In the Marshes
Adam Marks
May 11, 2024
In the Marshes
Adam Marks
May 11, 2024

“It snatched a dog two days ago, in Drapers Fields,” Detective Constable Habib explained back at the station to her superior, “right in front of its owner. They found its entrails wrapped around a lamppost on the High Road. It’s head was…”

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Adam Marks
May 11, 2024
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Hospitality Engine
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025
Hospitality Engine
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025

Naugahyde seats crackle and groan under my knees, / sounds like taking shoes off at the end of the night, / when I remember that the first computer / was a woman named Ada Lovelace / who worked from home, mailing numbers to a Difference Engine

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Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025
KCHUNK vs. The Bop Bags
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025
KCHUNK vs. The Bop Bags
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025

We walk in the firelight of foreclosed homes, / smoke thick as the ink of old contracts,

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Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025
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