Excerpt: OK Bunger! The Problem of Generations, pt. 5

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cmz75-110e84a The fifth and final part of a series on generational consciousness and conflict. This is an excerpt. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast In this episode, we examine the Millennials and Generation Z. Uniquely, generation war today seems…

OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 4

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vriqz-11010ad The fourth in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.   In this episode, we examine Generation X – the generation of the End of History. How was this generation overshadowed by the Boomer's failures? In the…

Excerpt: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 3

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p4ygt-10f7e85 The third in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.   This is an excerpt. For the full 1h40min episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast   In this episode, we examine the Baby Boomers – myth and reality. The…

/218/ Stability Über Alles ft. Wolfgang Streeck

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h7nde-10f1723 On German's elections – and the costs of stability. Wolfgang Streeck is back on the podcast to round-up Germany's elections last Sunday (26 September). What's behind the emphasis on continuity and competence? Is Germany stuck in the 2000s? We…

OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 2

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3xqmk-10ee99f The second in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we look at the emergence of 'youth' as political concept in the age following the French Revolution, and its shifting meanings. How important was…

Excerpt: /217/ Reading Club: Intersectional Stalinism

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-afq69-10e99c5 This month's Reading Club is on Mike McNair's "Intersectionalism, the highest stage of western Stalinism?" from the journal Critique (pdf attached on Patreon).   How convincing is his genealogy in which he traces intersectionalism back to the 1930s Popular…

/216/ Goodbye Mutti! Election Preview ft. Dominik Leusder

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zjqxg-10e7c06 On Germany's election this week. Merkel has led Germany since 2005, outlasting any number of politicians across the West. What accounts for her longevity? How has such a non-ideological, post-political figure lasted so long?  Germany is finally leaving her…

OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 1

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a3zvs-10e5a05 The first in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we look at the current, vexed discourse around generations, and analyse competing theories on how to understand generational cleavages. Guests include: Felix Krawatzek, political…

Excerpt: /215/ Organize the Incels?! ft. Alex Gendler

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q7sns-10dc26f On the long history of involuntary celibates.   Alex Gendler talks to us about his essay in American Affairs, "The New Superfluous Men". With growing global concern about incels and increasing anti-terrorism focus on the supposed risks posed by…