https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eet6q-f31111 Game writer & designer Jonas Kyratzes joins us to talk about the art of games, the culture of gaming, the gamification of society, and the identity politics of gamer culture. How far has Jonas’ own philosophy influenced his writing…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4ipqg-f2725c Full episode for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On “culture”. We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4zraf-f1dadd On Germany, the hegemon of Europe. We are joined by leading German public intellectual Wolfgang Streeck to discuss the role of Germany at the end of the End of History. How is it and the EU faring under the…
Read More /160/ Enemies of the People (Large & Very Small) ft. Wolfgang Streeck
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8iaqi-f19862 On the US election, a huge turnout and the end of Trump. We survey the results of the presidential and legislative elections, peer through the exit polls and discuss some counterintuitive facts: Florida goes Trump but opts for a…
Read More /159/ Biden Time ft. Amber Frost & Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tazxe-f11ed0 Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast In this latest Three Articles, we discuss cosmopolitanism, the end of austerity (maybe?) and social control in the pandemic. Readings: Is cosmopolitanism our destiny?, Aris Roussinos, Unherd Meet the Philosopher…
Read More Excerpt: /158/ Three Articles: Cosmopolitan Austerity & Control
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6yc29-f11cff On why anti-fascism is a problem. The Trump presidency and the current protests in the US have led many to argue this is just like the 1930s. The implication is that fascism is rising and the Left must…
Read More UNLOCKED /152/ I Can’t Believe It’s Not Weimar ft. David Broder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zqq68-f10200 This is a sample. For full access, go to patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Todd McGowan's Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution - an introduction to, defence and radical re-interpretation of Hegel emphasising the importance of contradiction to…
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