https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hce9b-b22518 [PREVIEW. For full episode, subscribe.] On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plus some stuff about…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sujee-b159f6 On 'neoliberal order breakdown syndrome' and the media. Glenn Greenwald talks to us about Russiagate and fake news, and is unimpressed with same old propaganda. We discuss about left-wing self-criticism, Bolsonaro and transgression, and ask how to be sceptical…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-shup4-afdd43 On migration and identity. The question of migration and borders has become increasingly fraught across different societies. Why has immigration become the means through which grievance is expressed? Where has 'white' identity come from? And how durable is identity…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6hz5v-af4d12 On Peterson vs Zizek. Did the 'debate of the century' live up to its billing? More importantly, what explains Peterson's appeal - and Zizek's? Why did the debate have such an odd, out of time feel? References: The Fool…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ayisy-ae607b On Modern Monetary Theory. Doug Henwood joins us to discuss whether MMT offers a fiscal alternative for Left governments. What is monetary sovereignty and do all states have it? What are MMT's prospects for states as different as the…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2gunp-ace712 On whether we can salvage anything from postmodernism. Have we left postmodernity - and if so, can can we be properly dialectical about it: see it as progress and catastrophe all at once? Is there a moment of truth…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2gunp-ace712 On whether we can salvage anything from postmodernism. Have we left postmodernity - and if so, can can we be properly dialectical about it: see it as progress and catastrophe all at once? Is there a moment of truth…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r7zjm-aba43e #BungaLive. Debate on the future of Europe, held at Queen Mary, University of London on 21 March 2019. Europe After Brexit: Internationalism or Transnationalism? Until now, most debates about Brexit have only considered the question from the viewpoint of…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bekbr-ab17f7 On 'Corbynomics'. We talk to James Meadway, former advisor to the UK's Shadow Chancellor, about what a Corbyn government could and should do. What is the scope for manoeuver of a Left Government in 2019? What does a British…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g9f8t-a9eaf7 On crime and the far-right. Prof Steve Hall explains what 'ultra-realism' in criminology means - and why we need to get beyond liberal idealism. We also discuss the rise of the English far-right, the EDL - and how a…
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