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Is Capitalist Realism Over? - Call for Submissions

Locust Arts + Letters Collective

June 25, 2026

Is Capitalist Realism Over? - Call for Submissions

Locust Arts + Letters Collective

June 25, 2026

As AI slop is weaponized into fascist aesthetics, as the ghosts of Stalin and Kautsky are resurrected on the left, as absurdities mount, has the mainstream prohibition on radical alternatives morphed into something else? To what degree have elements of capitalist realism — market Stalinism, business ontology, depressive hedonia, reflexive impotence — attenuated, allowing the return of “grand narratives,” however weakened? To what extent do these dynamics continue, including within the left itself? And what does it all mean for the working-class, the Left, and art?

Locust Arts + Letters Collective

June 25, 2026

Editorial

January 1, 2026

Locust Review's Lucky 13

Editorial

January 1, 2026

Math and bigotry seem to be the main coping mechanisms of the US capitalist class. Math provides the utopia — through technology and AI — as well as fixes election results, fixes labor, fixes society. At the same time, bigotry is being used as a cudgel, in part, to obscure the shifting algorithms of capital. Altogether this is a response to climate disaster and imperial decline, creating concentric racist circles of automated fortress.

Editorial

January 1, 2026

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Mike Watson

September 9, 2026

Technofascist Irrealism

Mike Watson

September 9, 2026

Our forebears said evil is banal, but still we were unprepared for the crushing weight of the everyday as it unfolds parallel to the shifting tectonic plates of history pursuing the darkest timeline. Politicians gather (like generals… in their masses) and pull levers that threaten to shift ethical poles and move continental thought patterns, leaving collateral damage in all four corners. A future army is set on the march. It might be made up of drones. It will be comprised of killers... Back home your son wants a particular dish, cooked in some specific way. The drains are blocked, in some anomalous way. The algorithms of war pump more data. The real estate magnate botches another sales pitch. It doesn’t matter — he’s not selling anyhow. He’s stealing. Meanwhile, you’ve got a lesson to teach, a bill to pay, a podcast to record, a meme to post, a pizza to cook… all as global techno fascism comes rolling in.

Mike Watson

September 9, 2026

Adam Marks

July 24, 2026

Der Burgerkrieg auf Normal Island

Adam Marks

July 24, 2026

Whither the Burgerkrieg auf Normal Island? The UK economy is at near perfect standstill. The state is busy hammering the repression button, the only thing it knows works… and it’s not so sure it works.

Adam Marks

July 24, 2026

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Nigel Farage

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

Mainstream right wing politicians have been experimenting with summoning their fascist golems. Suella Braverman who, in November 2023, was Home Secretary, after being frustrated at being unable to prohibit a peace march in London on the same weekend as Armistice Day, suggested that ceremonies at the Cenotaph on Whitehall were under threat from “hate marchers” displaying “thuggish intimidation and extremism.” The far right took this, fairly obvious, cue and descended on Whitehall, drunk and high. With no one to fight, they first fought the cops, then each other. Plus la change. Braverman largely blamed the police for this debacle. By December 2023, she was a back bench MP.

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

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Adam Turl

July 4, 2026

In the Beginning was the Commune

Adam Turl

July 4, 2026

The people who became us lived under oaks. / In the canopy two rat snakes were in love, / spending their days in a warm caduceus.

Adam Turl

July 4, 2026

Customer Feedback Survey for the Apocalypse

Tish Turl

July 4, 2026

Customer Feedback Survey for the Apocalypse

Tish Turl

July 4, 2026

Thank you for participating in the end of the world. Your input helps us improve future catastrophes. Please complete the following fields to the best of your remaining ability.

Tish Turl

July 4, 2026

Adam Turl

July 4, 2026

The Strong Images Flew Away

Adam Turl

July 4, 2026

Don’t bury your images in the yard. / You’re supposed to starve the faeries, / mow down grave mushrooms, / take off your Scotch bonnet and / burn your scalp with moonlight.

Adam Turl

July 4, 2026

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Irrealist Combat League

November 28, 2023

Theses on the Theatrical Party

Irrealist Combat League

November 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.

Irrealist Combat League

November 28, 2023

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

October 31, 2023

Constructing Counter-Imaginaries

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

October 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.

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

October 31, 2023

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Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

The Boredom Artist

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

THE BOREDOM Artist was set to retire. He would give one more performance. London’s Festival Hall was sold out as a result. Last chance to see. One-thousand seven-hundred and ten people, people who liked and appreciated what he did, would go with Dave to a place he had never gone before, though midnight, past the hour-mark. A clock behind them counted down.

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

R. Faze

July 4, 2026

My Body Maps Political Forces

R. Faze

July 4, 2026

It was four years since the attempted self-immolation by my body. Three years since my body was named The Idiot. Two years since The Idiot had any contact with sister, mother or father. A year and a half since The Idiot’s prayers had been answered. In the wrong way.

R. Faze

July 4, 2026

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December 1, 2025

Locust Radio Ep. 31 - Lucky 13

December 1, 2025

In Locust Radio 31, Tish and Adam read poems from the forthcoming issue, discuss Trumpism and art in Venice, and try to unpack the editorial for Locust Review 13. Tish and Adam also listen to the song “Dortn” by Sister Wife Sex Strike.

December 1, 2025

May 3, 2025

Locust Radio Ep. 30 - Evicted from Heaven and Earth

May 3, 2025

In this book, Adam traces the haunted landscapes left behind by capital—abandoned factories, broken promises, digital ghosts—and asks what it means to make art in a world where both Heaven and Earth seem to have shut their doors. It’s part art theory, part manifesto, part séance. And in true Locust Radio fashion, it’s not just a critique—it’s a search for openings.

May 3, 2025

November 14, 2024

Locust Radio Ep. 29 - Dead Bees on Hot Cement

November 14, 2024

In this episode of Locust Radio, Adam Turl interviews R. Faze, author of the My Body series published in Locust Review. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with Locust members and collaborators on contemporary artistic strategies.

November 14, 2024

September 29, 2024

Locust Radio Ep. 28 - Anupam Roy + Irrealist Expressionism

September 29, 2024

In episode 28 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropocene.

September 29, 2024

September 22, 2024

Locust Radio Ep. 27 - Escape from Capitalist Realism

September 22, 2024

In episode 27 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Tish Turl – writer, editor, artist, poet and member of the Locust collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a late capitalist cybernetic Anthropocene.

September 22, 2024