https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-558pw-19447b8 The third in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we examine the Baby Boomers – myth and reality. The revolt of the '60s has been misunderstood in many dimensions. Was it betrayed…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rh79x-19447a7 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 generational…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-byg36-194473b 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 scientist at…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c3ks2-1945112 On disruption, disturbance, decline, decay. We continue our attempt to conceptualise the present moment by looking at Silicon Valley-style disruption, geopolitical disturbances and 'polycrisis', and decline & decay along two axes: normative vs descriptive, and geopolitical and universal. Then…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nh4nm-194471a [Bungacast is on holiday, so we're unlocking/re-releasing a July 2021 episode that was previously only available to higher-tier subscribers] We discuss Michael Lind's The New Class War. Lind identifies new lines in the class war, between working class and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tq5hw-19398b3 On The National Interest. Aufhebunga Bunga co-founder and contributing editor Phil Cunliffe joins us to talk about his new book about politics after the age of globalisation. We ask questions about his book – and then put him on…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yzqs4-192f4d5 On image-enhancing drugs. Jason Myles of This Is Revolution is back on, talking to George and Alex H about his article in Damage on increasing steroid use. What does the discourse around 'fake natties' tell us about authenticity? Do…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h9ztu-192ad06 On Franz Jakubowski's Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism. We focus on a very short section from Jakubowski's 1936 book, and delve into wider questions regarding ideology, social totality, and the middle classes. Is ideology “false, partial consciousness”? Is…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ambtw-1924ee1 On resistance and reform in southeast Asia. Historian Sean Fear talks to Alex H and Lee Jones about Vietnam on the 50-year anniversary since the end of the war. How is Vietnamese identity wrapped up with the notion of…
Read More /504/ Vietnam’s Victory: American War to Globalisation ft. Sean Fear
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kpfp2-191ef8a On the end of the end of history and what comes next. Phil is back on the pod, talking with George and Alex about the big themes of the podcast. In particular, we look at a recent essay in…
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