https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3pjqx-15ed593 On the Big Hard Dick industry. [Patreon Exclusive] Clinicians and Damage authors & editors, Christie and Benjamin, tell us why the market for penis enlargement and hardness has exploded. What is the "penis anxiety industry" How does…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i8kdf-15e33b3 On melodrama and the bourgeois subject. [Patreon Exclusive] We're back with the next installment of our series on the "emotional turn". Alex talks to Catherine Liu about whether politics is staged in a "melodramatic" fashion today. What…
Read More /404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV) ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dtc2s-15d41e0 On A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics [Patreon Tier III & IV Exclusive] Continuing our theme of "the intelligentsia & the public," we discuss German critical theorist Jürgen Habermas's 2023 book, asking…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mqsby-15cbc90 On President AMLO and the rebuilding the working class. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue our discussion with anthropologist Roger Lancaster who has lived and researched in Mexico for decades, on the past and present of Mexican radicalism. How…
Read More /402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft. Roger Lancaster (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6v3hz-15cbc0d On Mexico, class, and sexuality. We welcome anthropologist Roger Lancaster onto the pod to talk about his new book, The Struggle to Be Gay – in Mexico, for Example. We discuss: How much is being gay tied…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ztc3a-15c469e On what comes next: in politics, ideas, economy, subjectivity To commemorate seven years of the podcast and four-hundred episodes, we got all our new Contributors in to examine the oppositions and tensions that we think will characterise the…
Read More /400/ The Political Oppositions of the Next Decade ft. Frost, Gourevitch, Liu, Phillips
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sq36e-15bc577 On the withdrawal from hyperpolitics and hypermodernity. [Patreon Exclusive] What comes after a decade of populism? Alex Hochuli talks through his new essay in Damage, issue 2. This is episode is the third part of our Emotion…
Read More /399/ From ADHD to Let Me Be (Emotion Sickness, pt III) [sample]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-adwsa-15b270c Part II of the series: on therapy and vulnerability. [Patreon Exclusive: subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotions. What is…
Read More /398/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (II) ft. Ashley Frawley (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e66yw-15af087 On Benedict Anderson's classic Imagined Communities. [Patreon Exclusive. Subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast] Originally published in 1983, Anderson's account of the origins of nations is one of the most cited books in English in the humanities. In what ways does…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cxska-15aa739 On Portugal's elections, 50 years since the revolution Catarina Príncipe, a long-time activist on the Portuguese left and a doctoral student of political economy, is back on the podcast to talk through what happened as Portugal went to…
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