Eddie is joined by Emerzy Corbin to unpack the techniques of photography in the club today, new technological developments in the craft, and the treasured canon of cameras and communities they've worked with.

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For this episode, Eddie catches up with Tee Max, who documented the ascending icons of the Hip-Hop scene with Eddie (and who forms part of the titular image of Spirit Behind the Lens). Tee and Eddie talk their origins in music and photography, their encounters with icons such as Biggie Smalls, and the future of the craft today.

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Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all.

The world’s railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis builds a case not simply for railways as a common good, but argues that railways are a critical tool for humanity to survive and thrive.
Whether it’s the power of organised labour, the threats and opportunities of new technology, the distribution of democratic power or the calamitous impacts of climate change, railways can act as a lens through which to understand the future and the part they can play in it.
Dennis takes us across the globe, from Virgin Hyperloop’s abandoned test track in the Nevada desert to the overcrowded stations of the North of England, exploring how railways can shape and inform choices about our future, and in turn detailing how taking a long-term view can help shape transport for the better. With his deep knowledge of railways and his unique view of history and politics, he equips us with the tools to answer those imperative questions: what and who should our railways be for?

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Eddie is joined by Holly-Marie Cato to talk about her photographic origins photographing the riots of the early 2010s, how her background in architecture informs her use of space and light in artistic practice, and her experiences in Jamaica and capturing the cultural legacies of colonialism and the diaspora in finding the space for documentary photography today.

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Eddie speaks to Johny Pitts, photographer and author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe. They dive into the Afropean diasporic experience as captured through the medium of the image, the growing exclusion of the working class from contemporary arts and media, and the technological heyday of photography in Japan from Johny and Eddie's experiences of working with the iconic Konica film.

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Eddie discusses the work of legendary photographer Eve Arnold, who produced era-defining photographs of political and cultural icons such as Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, and James Brown. To do so, Eddie is joined by printer of Eve's work, Danny Pope, and her grandson and curator Michael Arnold. The trio discuss the impact she had on the artistic direction of their craft, what it means to create icons photographically, and the changing nature of the art today.

Eve Arnold:
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A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future.

In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time, it held that cities were at their best when they were driven from the bottom-up and when organic, unplanned processes were allowed to run their course, in a spontaneous “ballet of the street”. Cities were at their worst, however, when the state stepped in, demolishing lively old neighbourhoods and erecting giant, sterile, empty “projects”. This book uses the method of this ideology — walking — to test how true it actually is about the “capital of the twentieth century”, New York City, with a brief interlude in the capital, Washington DC.

The “projects” that are walked in this book range from cultural complexes in Manhattan to New Deal-era public housing developments in Brooklyn, Harlem and Queens, from the social experiment of Roosevelt Island to Communist housing co-operatives in the Bronx, from the union-driven rebuilding of the Lower East Side to DC’s magnificent Metro. For all their many flaws, they prove that Americans could, in fact, plan and build fragments of a better society, which survive and sometimes thrive today in one of the unequal places on earth. Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects takes a hard look at these enclaves, and asks what a new generation of American socialists might be able to learn from them.

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In this episode, Eddie speaks to photographer Jermaine Francis about his style of "Post-Documentary" photography, representation, capturing the landscape of Black life across the diaspora, and their collective experiences of practicing the craft throughout their long and vibrant careers.

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Eddie is joined by fellow Repeater author Mattie Colquhoun, writer of Narcissus in Bloom, to discuss photography as a site of self imagination and self transformation through the icon and the image.

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In the first episode of Spirit Behind the Lens: The Conversations, Eddie Otchere is joined by Giles Price to discuss his beginnings in photography whilst serving in the Armed Forces, his post-service career in fashion and the arts, and his work in drone photography, covering the impact of the civil war in Syria and beyond.

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Giles' website: https://www.gilesprice.com/

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Adam from Acid Horizon joins Phil Burton-Cartledge to discus 'The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak' out on Verso Books.

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The Fall of the Tory Party - from Thatcher to Sunak

Today, it is not a question of if, but when? What we are watching is the collapse of the most successful political party in Europe. Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the parliamentary conservative and unionist party is facing its own demise. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get Brexit Done'. And beyond this, it is an intellectual vacuum, propped up by half-baked doctrine and magical thinking.

Burton-Cartlege's account starts with the Thatcher era, and show that swiftly the party struggled to find a popular vision for the United Kingdom. He charts the flaws an failings of each successive leader, all the way to Sunak. He also examines the state of the membership and shows that they have become increasingly old. Their values have not been adopted by the younger voters, who are unable to share the benefits. Furthermore, the coalition between the countryside and the City interests is under pressure, and the latter is split by Brexit.

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A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period’s most popular music.

Mixing Pop and Politics is not a history of political music, but a political history of popular music. Spanning the early 50s to the present, it shows how, from doo-wop to hip-hop, punk to crunk and grunge to grime, music has both reflected and resisted the political events of its era.

Mixing Pop and Politics explores the connections between popular music and political ideology, whether that’s the liberation of rock’n’roll or the containment of girl groups, the refusal of glam or the resignation of soft rock, the solidarity of disco or the individualism of 80s pop.

At a time when reactionary forces are waging political war in the realm of culture, and we’re being told to keep politics out of music, Mixing Pop and Politics is a timely, original and joyful exploration of popular music’s role in our society.

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From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures

'A breath of fresh air: a vivid eye for detail meets narrative pacing that seems effortless.' Morgan Jones, LabourList
‘An absorbing history of Labour’s radical left.’ Jason Cowley, Observer

‘The Searchers should be studied closely by anyone with a stake in British politics.’ Patrick Maguire, The Times

In the great revolutionary year of 1968, Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties, and he was restless. While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world, Westminster politics seemed stuck. It was time, he decided, for a different approach.

Over the next half century, the radicalized Benn helped forge a new left in Britain. He was joined by four other politicians, who would become comrades, collaborators and rivals: Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn.

For Andy Beckett, the story of these admired and loathed political explorers - both their sudden breakthroughs and long stretches in the wilderness - is the untold story of British politics in modern times. As he reveals, their project to create a radically more equal, liberal and democratic Britain has been much more influential than electoral history might suggest, and can be seen from the shape of our city life to the causes of our culture wars.

For their many detractors, this influence was and remains dangerous: a form of extremism that must be stamped out. But as these five searchers believed, in politics there is no total victory - nor total defeat.

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In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions, belonging to the autonomia movement, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and powered by novel experiments in communication, in particular the printed word. Hundreds of revolutionary newspapers known as ‘movement sheets’ would circulate Italy during those years, acting as little machines to produce political subjectivity. This book contains the recollections of the autonomist militant, philosopher and media theorist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on autonomia and the tumultuous events of ’77, told through the pages of A/traverso, the Bolognese movement sheet he produced with others between 1975 - 1981. In texts translated into English for the first time, presented alongside extensive archival material and stunning photographs, this book explores the subversion, exuberance and joy of the movement of ’77, while raising important questions about the role of creative collectivity and experimental communication for militants today.

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Technic and Magic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/

We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a troubling and painful form of reality: Technic.

Under Technic, the foundations of reality begin to crumble, shrinking the field of the possible and freezing our lives in an anguished state of paralysis. Technic and Magic shows that the way out of the present deadlock lies much deeper than debates on politics or economics. By drawing from an array of Northern and Southern sources – spanning from Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's philosophies, through Pessoa's poetry, to Advaita Vedanta, Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra's theosophies – Magic is presented as an alternative system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable' that lies at the heart of existence.

Technic and Magic is an original philosophical work, and a timely cultural intervention. It disturbs our understanding of the structure of reality, while restoring it in a new form. This is possibly the most radical act: if we wish to change our world, first we have to change the idea of 'reality' that defines it.

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In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this "depression" is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". A desertion from political participation, from the daily grind of capitalism, from the brutal reality of climate collapse, and from a society which offers nothing but chaos and pain.

Berardi analyses why this desertion is on the rise and why more people are quitting everything in our age of political impotence and the rise of the far-right, asking if we can find some political hope in desertion amongst the ruins of a world on the brink of collapse.

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The utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction, Jon Greenaway explores the work of German philosopher Ernst Bloch, whose complex and challenging philosophy is a primer for a philosophical renewal of the struggle for a better world.

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From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream  and nightmare  images of a global order gone very, very wrong. Situating itself in the defaulting financial markets of the present, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse glances back toward a messy history of zombies, car wrecks, tidal waves, extinction, trash heaps, labour, pandemics, wolves, cannibalism, and general nastiness that populate the underside of our cultural imagination. Every age may dream the end of the world to follow, but these scattered nightmare figures are a skewed refraction of the normal hell of capitalism. The apocalypse isn't something that will happen one day: it's just the slow unveiling of the catastrophe we've been living through for centuries. Against any fantasies of progress, return, or reconciliation, Williams launches a loathing critique of the bleak present and offers a graveside smile for our necessary battles to come.

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Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labour superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. This book develops a fully-fledged theory of radical atheism, advocating a disrespectful, opportunist squandering of obedience. By replacing hope and faith with adventure, The Last Night of our lives might finally become the first morning of an autonomous future.

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The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World: https://watkinspublishing.com/books/the-astral-geographic-the-watkins-guide-to-the-occult-world/: 

Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/

Craig from Acid Horizon sits down with fellow Repeater author Andy Sharp to discuss various political implications of James Hillman's theory of dreams, namely the how "the underworld" of our dreams resists the dictates of life under capitalism. Also featured in the discussion is Mark Fisher's 'acid communism' and the life and work of the mysterious alchemist Fulcanelli.

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Absent Signifier (David's free metal band): https://www.instagram.com/absentsignifierband?igsh=ZzhvbWpvczg5aWkw

Can Lacanian theory explain our enjoyment of musical genres? Adam and Craig of Acid Horizon sit down with musicologist David Burke to discuss what makes metal phallic, why dance music is akin to the Other's jouissance, and more.

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Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we’re accustomed to. Using Boorman’s Zardoz as a tool, Against The Vortex unearths the artistic and intellectual output of a decelerationist 1970s, with an eye toward imagining a very different sort of future.

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Adam of Acid Horizon dives into the work of Carl Neville to explore the Terminator series as a parable of radicalization, how struggles in the present show the future of our current predicament, and how to fight back.

Books by Carl Neville:

Eminent Domain (Repeater): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/eminent-domain/

Classless: Recent Essays on British Film (Zer0): https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/classless

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Many leftists today know the name of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, but few know much about him. In this conversation, one of the foremost scholars on his life and ideas, Davide Turcato, discusses Malatesta’s activities during his long London exile from 1900-1913, his revolutionary theory of the armed strike, and his complicated relation to the Marxism of the second international.

Buy the latest volume of Malatesta’s complete works here: https://akpress.org/complete-works-of-malatesta-vol-v.html

The Method of Freedom, An Errico Malatesta Reader: https://akpress.org/the-method-of-freedom.html

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An historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom.
 
Wales, a mining village, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and squalor, its inhabitants oppressed by both Chapel conformist impulses and the predations of a new kind of capitalism being born.

Sion, a metalworker, strikes up an illicit relationship with Katherine, the wife of the mineowner’s personal dogsbody. And so begins the struggle of non-transactional and non-exploitative human love to be recognised in a place bent on the destruction and negation of that very thing.

A mix of political anger, historical excavation, Celtic mysticism, praise of the human impulse to love and rage at avarice and exploitation, Of Talons and Teeth seeks to explore that moment when human beings and the natural beauties around them were turned into mere chattels; when Mammon became the only god worth worshipping.

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