https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-492cn-d96a59 This episode is for subscribers only. To hear the full thing, go to patreon.com/bungacast In this latest Three Articles, we discuss responses to Covid-19. Articles Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract, Editorial, FT Herd…
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/117/ Against The Virus ft. John McAfee
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kvcrs-d90f9b On freedom in coronavirus times.John McAfee joins us to address the lockdown, privacy and armed insurrection. Plus: why he prefers Fidel to Che, and how it came to be that his US presidential campaign HQ is in Havana, Cuba.Subscribe:…
/116/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r8kzh-d86200 In the first of an occasional series of episodes on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Nick Frayn, a volunteer with the Bernie Sanders campaign in New England. How have things gone on the campaign…
Excerpt: /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
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…
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…
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