https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-betvc-140d57d On utopia and individualism. Renowned intellectual historian and critic Russell Jacoby joins us to talk about his lifetime of left critique. We discuss his early criticisms of psychology in light of the advance of therapy culture over the past…
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/339/ Erdogone? People vs Nation in Turkey ft. Alp Kayserilioglu
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2s757-1405a2f On Turkey's elections. Alp Kayserilioglu joins us to talk about a crucial election. Erdogan’s rule is seriously threatened for the first time, with high inflation biting into living standards. Who are the main candidates and do what they propose?…
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/338/ The Energy Theory of Everything ft. Matt Huber
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ssgby-14032b5 On who owns the power. Matt Huber joins us to discuss his article, "Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid", and how organised labour is central to a politics of plenty. What is the grid and who owns it? What…
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/337/ Nigeria Rising Downwards ft. Sa’eed Husaini
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gpu87-13f9ba9 On Nigeria's 'end of the end of history'. Sa'eed Husaini from The Nigerian Scam podcast joins us to reflect on all things Nigeria: oil, debt, corruption and February's election. What was all that hype about the 'outsider' who wasn't…
Excerpt: /336/ Reading Club: Freedom (3)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-478nd-13f2bd4 On Martin Hägglund's This Life. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We continue on the theme of freedom by discussing Martin Hägglund's case for 'democratic socialism'. Would we actually work under socialism, or do we need the threat of…
Excerpt: /335/ AI & the End of the End of History
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-arj8a-13ee4f3 On history-ending technology. [Patreon Exclusive] The economist Tyler Cowen recently suggested that radical technological change today marks a turning point in history. Is he right, and how would we evaluate such a claim? Should we be…
/334/ Cancellation is Cancelled ft. Norman Finkelstein
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ddqpn-13e700a On the US cultural climate. Renowned/notorious writer Norman Finkelstein joins us to discuss the themes of his latest and last book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It! What unites the leading intellectual proponents of wokeness today,…
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Excerpt: /333/ Aufhebonus Bonus (April 2023)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-k8f52-13dda92 On your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] Is the Left dead? Did the turn to culture really kill it? Or is the nostalgia for the post-war Left the real problem? We also debate what the function of imperialism in…
UNLOCKED: /306/ AI Capitalism: Inhuman Power
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g28bk-13d81ab On Inhuman Power. [Unlocked episode from Bungacast 'Reading Club', originally released 6 December 2022] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the few areas today in which capitalist still seem to have ambition.…
/331/ The Zone (pt. 1) ft. Quinn Slobodian
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jnpb5-13d3650 On cracked-up capitalism. Historian of ideas Quinn Slobodian joins us again, this time to discuss his latest book, Crack-up Capitalism – the vision of a global capitalism with its constituent nation-states perforated by ‘zones’ shorn of any national oversight…
