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…
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/504/ Vietnam’s Victory: American War to Globalisation ft. Sean Fear
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…
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/503/ Effervescent Decadence in the Third Modernity
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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/502/ Their Own Personal Jesus ft. Lamorna Ash
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wqh3t-191aa06 On the "return of religion" in Britain. [Patreon Exclusive] Journalist Lamorna Ash talks to George and Alex about how and why young people might be turning to religion today. Have things moved on from the New Atheists and their…
/501/ Reading Club: The Lower-Middle Class
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-29srs-1915599 On Arno Mayer's "The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem". We kick off the third block of the 2024/25 Reading Club, which is dedicated to the question of the middle class: The abatement of class struggle between workers and…
/500/ Disrupt, Decline, Decay
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-23icm-190febe We celebrate 500 episodes of Aufhebunga Bunga with a cold, hard look at the decay around us. Alex and George plus contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex Gourevitch wrangle with four principal questions: What does it mean to say…
/499/ Shame! Shame on Bungacast! ft. Taylor Hines
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-986tb-19061ca On shame, guilt and responsibility. Taylor Hines, an editor at Damage magazine, talks to George and Alex about his essay "Fool Me Twice" in Issue 4 of the magazine, which deals with the theme Responsibility. Remember, subscribers to Bungacast…
/498/ After the 12-Day War ft. Eskandar Sadeghi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5f7yv-18fdc5c On Iran and its Axis of Resistance. Historian Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi talks to Alex about the leadup and aftermath of the so-called "12-Day War between Iran and Israel and the US. Hamas and Hezbollah have been humbled, Assad is gone…
/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vp7yq-18f1437 On technology, transhumanism, and progress. James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and contributing editor Leigh Phillips. What is wrong with the acronym TESCREAL? Why…
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/496/ Insane-Washing the War (Which Did Not Take Place)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-psw7t-18f0815 On the war on Iran that wasn't (yet). Alex and George review the past month in the world and on Bungacast: The crazy will-they-won't-they of a potential US war on Iran The ex post facto justifications on all sides…
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