https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ccqxm-d7a248 Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this…
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Excerpt: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q3anv-d761f8 This episode is for our $10 and up patrons. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On the end of the Age of Imitation. We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning and their arguments for why…
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/113/ Globoville ft. Richard Williams
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7tamf-d5d889 On global cities. Global cities flaunt themselves to global capital and are shaped by it. They are self-conscious and eager to transmit 'globalness'. But why? And how has the city under globalisation been reshaped? What is the role of money…
Excerpt: /112/ Ideologies of the Near Future
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hj7mw-d5d5b5 On political conflict over the next decade This is a subscriber-only show. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We debate what ideological contestation is going to look like in the next 2/5/10 years. Will liberalism adopt Silicon Valley solutionism? Does the…
/111/ Big Money Talk: The Case for MMT ft. Bill Mitchell
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hz5pn-d5401f Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has been hailed by some and scorned by others as offering a new framework to understand the financial system. But what is specifically 'modern' about MMT, and how does it differ from rival accounts of the…
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Excerpt: /110/ Three Articles: De-democratising
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gqn76-d4eacc In this latest Three Articles, we discuss American democracy and those who pretend to save it or undermine it. Sign up for access to the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Readings: It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in…
/109/ Bunga Goes Ballard ft. Simon Sellars
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xsqur-d4a4e5 On Applied Ballardianism. Is it J.G. Ballard's world? Bunga talks Ballard with Simon Sellars, author of a new book on the great British sci-fi novelist J.G. Ballard. Urban decay, social breakdown, consumerism as social control and the Interzone. Opening passage…
/108/ Coronageddon? ft. Mark Honigsbaum / Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ykyc-d31239 On pandemics, panics, and China. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus is yet another new epidemic to appear on the scene this century. What accounts for their increasing frequency, and who decides if an epidemic is classed as a pandemic? More…
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/107/ Ireland’s Return to History ft. Colin Coulter
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zf4ti-d2a84d On Ireland's elections. With Sinn Fein riding high in the polls, are we looking at an upset? Is this a populist upsurge in Ireland, finally, more than a decade after the start of the crisis? We discuss what Ireland's 'end…
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Excerpt: /106/ The Endless Scrolling of Cinema ft. Maren Thom
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-25psx-d23aca On film in 2019/20. This is a sample only. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/BungaCast We saw yet more sequilitis the past year, the endlessness and onwardness of contemporary cinema. So what were the worst films…
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