ACFM Trip 47: Disruption

Novara Media

Disruption is a byword for success in the tech industry, but when it affects our daily routines – say, because Just Stop Oil are slow-marching down the high street – disruption becomes nothing short of criminal. In this Trip, Jem, Nadia and Keir try to make sense of the harsh sentences handed down to climate activists this year while unpacking the political uses of disruption and the 'creative destruction' inherent to capitalism. Along the way they discuss music from Björk, Disrupters and Stormzy and chew on ideas from economist Joseph Schumpeter, Nick Land and the Communist Manifesto. Books: Joseph Schumpeter / Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus / Erik Olin Wright - How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – The Communist Manifesto / Michał Kalecki - Political Aspects of Full Employment Music: Disrupters - Shelters For the Rich / Stormzy - Vossi Bop / Joe Ariwa and the Tricksters - Disruptive Dub / The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction / Janelle Monaé - Tightrope / Björk - Declare Independence Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support