Alex was on The Jacobin Show to talk about our book, The End of the End of History. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOl1Yp5a_9E
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Brazilianization
Alex has an essay in American Affairs, arguing that decline and crisis in core capitalist countries is best understood a Brazilianization: not just inequality and oligarchy, but cynicism, anti-politics, indeterminacy, and the End of History - these are all facets…
Excerpt: /194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-k89bm-10464bd On global insurrection and identity politics. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We discuss an essay by the ultra-left collective 'Endnotes' that deals with the same political questions as we do, but comes up with…
/193/ The New 20 Years’ Crisis
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g3zqb-103a9cc On liberal idealism and imperial overreach. Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism come to dominate the discipline of IR, such that we have lost the means to critique…
Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ttqse-10321f3 On consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK. We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent local and regional elections: in the UK, Labour continues its drift to becoming…
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Excerpt: /191/ Reading Club: Ever Closer Union?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yvi86-10314c2 We discuss the second of Perry Anderson's three LRB essays on the making and unmaking of the EU: "Ever Closer Union?" Our monthly Reading Club is for patrons $10+. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast
/190/ Top 5 Fetishes ft. Elena Louisa Lange
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-573r8-1008e0e On class reductionism, commodity fetishism, and value theory. To discuss Covid, the state as 'PMC leviathan', and the politics of value theory, we’re joined by philosopher Elena Louisa Lange, who also explains why class reductionism is not a theoretical…
UNLOCKED /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iapys-1008f20 On memes and the counter-culture. Theorist and curator Mike Watson advances the argument for "acid leftism". What is this, and why do we need a new counter-culture? Is contemporary leftism lacking a utopian imaginary? Plus: slow memes…
/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pjt87-1008de0 On Latin America's progressive wave and its discontents. A new book on Latin America argues that 'pink tide' governments tried to treat the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism while allowing the underlying situation to worse. We talk to the author,…
UNLOCKED /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ivqvz-1008eca How to address the political problems of leftwing parties today? Liverpudlian historian David Swift argues that the problem is hobbyism - people for whom politics constitutes their identity rather than expressing their interest in social and political change.…
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