https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wzs9c-12137f8 [Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Frank Furedi's How Fear Works. Following on from last month's discussion of Corey Robin's Fear, we examine a differing attempt to demystify the politics and culture of fear. To join a local Reading Club where you…
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/258/ Conformist Rebellion ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wgbss-120e7ad On Marxism & the Left. We talk to Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left. Who or what is "the Left" today – merely the left wing of Capital?…
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/257/ How to Boil a Frog (2) ft. Chris Bickerton
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fr7s9-1205b58 The second part of our double ep on France's presidential election. Ahead of the second round, we discuss how likely a Le Pen victory could be and the effect of Zemmour’s candidacy – which appears to have made her…
/256/ How to Boil a Frog (1) ft. Charles Devellennes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xbtf8-120364e On France's presidential elections. We talk to Charles Devellennes to digest the first round, which saw centre-right Macron and far-right Le Pen come out on top, with leftist Mélenchon missing out. How similar are Macron and Le Pen's…
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Excerpt: /255/ Reading Club: Fear I – Robin
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7xn2m-11fd5b1 [Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Corey Robin's Fear: The History of a Political Idea. This is March's Reading Club, the third in the Emergency Politics section of the 2022 Syllabus.
/254/ Three Articles: Ukraine
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6qud8-11f84ff [Patreon Exclusive] On US proxy wars, Russia's elite, Ukrainian neutrality. 'Three Articles' aims to provide serious political discussion on current affairs that we feel is lacking elsewhere, drawing out the logical conclusions of the three pieces' arguments.…
/252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xs7x3-11ededf On the fusion of technocracy & populism. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the "new logic of democratic politics". How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the…
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/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qi2un-11e4194 On energy, the material basis for all our politics?Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from…
/249/ Dances with Truckers ft. Ashley Frawley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sdcxc-11da437 On the Freedom Convoy, the indigenous question, and 'anti-socialist socialism'(?) Sociologist and commentator Ashley Frawley is back on the pod to talk about the situation in Canada. With family members involved in the protests, we asked her what she…
Excerpt: /248/ Aufhebonus Bonus
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-229tn-11d06e8 In which we respond to listener questions & criticisms. A bumper episode, featuring plenty on Canadian truckers, Swedish populists, ideas of justice, hyperpolitics and much more. The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast
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