https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sbyri-fbfb1f We discuss Gilles Deleuze's short essay, Postscript on the Societies of Control and ask whether his understanding, according to which society has changed from one where discipline is exercised in institutions to one where control is implemented across society,…
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Introducing “the Void”
Alex spoke to Bristol Transformed, introducing Peter Mair's essential "Ruling the Void", in the first edition of their Theory for Dummies series, as well as responding to questions about the state of politics today. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=467072294330160
Excerpt: /177/ AufheBonus Bonus ft. Catherine Liu
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wz5yu-fa8a9e We respond to your questions and comments from the past two months. Plus a continuation of our chat with Catherine Liu (from 55mins onwards) - on PMC unions, PMC child-rearing and the culture industry. This episode is for…
/176/ The Worst Class ft. Catherine Liu
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fyxc4-fa8479 On the Professional-Managerial Class. Catherine Liu joins us to talk about the worst class in history (the PMC), and how and why they hoard all forms of secularised value. We discuss the development of the PMC as a…
Excerpt: /175/ Psychoanalysis Against Adaptation ft. Benjamin Fong
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vim9p-fa160f On the relevance of psychoanalysis. In a continuation of our talk with Benjamin Fong, editor of Damage Magazine, we discuss the relevance of psychoanalysis today. What happened to the marriage of Marx and Freud – and what does the…
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After Left Populism, Part Two: Pro-Worker Conservatism in the UK
George was in Damage Magazine, following up his article on where the Left will go after left-populism, exploring the future of pro-worker conservatism in the UK. He also appeared on the Space Commune podcast talking about the "Management of Populist…
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/174/ Social Ungluing ft. Benjamin Fong
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3cdwd-f96658 On American breakdown. Editor of Damage Magazine, Benjamin Fong, joins us to talk about the lack of shared narratives in contemporary America. We discuss QAnon and conspiracy theories, Biden's authoritarian liberalism, and "pro-worker" conservatives. We also interrogate the use…
Excerpt: /172/ Three Articles: Elite Production
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6yi4w-f890ed On Uber, class war among the rich, and its political consequences Articles: The real class war is within the rich, Janan Ganesh, FT Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars, Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow The radical Left is…
Excerpt: /171/ Fukuyama & the End of History ft. Daniel Bessner
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e9k3e-f7f3f2 This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast If liberal democracy has been dethroned, what next? Francis Fukuyama famously declared the "end of history" in 1989. Has he been misunderstood? Should we understand the declaration in…
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Excerpt: /170/ Reading Club: Streeck’s Critical Encounters
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7nxqh-f7a502 This is a sample. Reading Clubs are for patrons $10+. Sign up now at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss a book by leading German sociologist and public intellectual, Wolfgang Streeck. Critical Encounters is a compilation of book reviews, discussing…
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