https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8g2c4-1330b17 On your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We debate what kind of work 'shared-labour socialism' would involve in a complex society, and what role 'dispossession' or 'expropriation' has in the contemporary economy. Plus: strategies on Ukraine – backing independence,…
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Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2urwj-132a63a On Inhuman Power. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the few areas today in which capitalist still seem to have ambition. Why is this…
/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kq4hx-1327722 On "techno-feudalism". In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to explain capitalist stagnation and inequality by arguing that we are moving beyond capitalism – toward something worse. In…
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qgxih-131dce7 On Mali and the Sahel. French president Emmanuel Macron declared the end of Opération Barkhane on 9 November 2022, bringing to an end to nearly 10 years of French military intervention in Mali. But what is the legacy…
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OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6escf-1306bf2 A special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.Previously released in 2021 only to subscribers at patreon.com/bungacast, a year on we're releasing the whole series to everyone. Part 1: (00:00:00) Part 2: (00:38:11) Part 3: (01:07:54) Part 4: (02:50:32)…
Excerpt: /302/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Nov 2022)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mdm6f-1306b87 On your questions & criticisms.[Patreon Exclusive] The weakness of anti-EU forces; the implications of defending Ukrainian sovereignty; what should we call the new far-right and what does it *do* in power? And the gravity of nuclear war …
Excerpt: /301/ Reading Club: Neo-Feudalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wgsgy-1305e1f On Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism We start off by discussing your points on the last RC, on conspiracy theory. Then we delve into Kotkin's book, asking whether he has an adequate understanding of feudalism, and whether this…
/300/ Bunga at the End of the World
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wjuht-1303208 On nuclear exterminism. To commemorate our 300th episode, we discuss how the world is closer to a nuclear conflict than at any point since the Cold War. After decades of inconsequential 'permawar' (at least inside the Western bubble), the…
/299/ Micropower & Transcendence in Brazil (Bungazão 2022) ft. Miguel Lago
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-crhj2-12fbca7 On reclaiming populism. With only a couple of days to go until the decisive runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro, we continue our Bungazão 2022 series by talking to to political scientist Miguel Lago about how Lula and Bolsonaro…
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/298/ Working For Freedom ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7nmpd-12f872f On shared-labour socialism. Political theorist Alex Gourevitch talks to us about his critique of post-work thought, and how it presupposes the very labour it seeks to free us from. We start of by distinguishing post-work socialism (e.g. Fully Automated…
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