Excerpt: /161/ Culture Is Bad For You ft. Mark Taylor

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4ipqg-f2725c Full episode for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast   On “culture”.   We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture…

Excerpt: /158/ Three Articles: Cosmopolitan Austerity & Control

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tazxe-f11ed0 Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast  In this latest Three Articles, we discuss cosmopolitanism, the end of austerity (maybe?) and social control in the pandemic.  Readings: Is cosmopolitanism our destiny?, Aris Roussinos, Unherd Meet the Philosopher…

UNLOCKED /152/ I Can’t Believe It’s Not Weimar ft. David Broder

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6yc29-f11cff On why anti-fascism is a problem.    The Trump presidency and the current protests in the US have led many to argue this is just like the 1930s. The implication is that fascism is rising and the Left must…

Excerpt: /157/ Reading Club: Emancipation After Hegel

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zqq68-f10200 This is a sample. For full access, go to patreon.com/bungacast  This month we discuss Todd McGowan's Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution - an introduction to, defence and radical re-interpretation of Hegel emphasising the importance of contradiction to…

/156/ Cosmo-Jihad ft. Darryl Li

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zqn25-f03404 Internationalism used to be a defining characteristic of the Left. Globalism is a defining characteristic of neoliberal capitalism. Both seem to be characteristic of Islamist jihadism. How did Islamist reaction become globalised? How far does Islamist globalism connect to…

UNLOCKED /154/ A Reasonably Important Election… Preview ft. Alex Gourevitch

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fqu3r-f02111 On the Covid election.  Trump has made himself deeply unpopular while the Democrats have tried to demobilise the electorate. What, if anything, are the two parties selling? Are they coherent entities? And what is likely to happen? Plus: we…

Excerpt: /154/ A Reasonably Important Election ft. Alex Gourevitch

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f4fv9-efd53b Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast  On the Covid election.  Trump has made himself deeply unpopular while the Democrats have tried to demobilise the electorate. What, if anything, are the two parties selling? Are they coherent…