https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dtc2s-15d41e0 On A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics [Patreon Tier III & IV Exclusive] Continuing our theme of "the intelligentsia & the public," we discuss German critical theorist Jürgen Habermas's 2023 book, asking…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mqsby-15cbc90 On President AMLO and the rebuilding the working class. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue our discussion with anthropologist Roger Lancaster who has lived and researched in Mexico for decades, on the past and present of Mexican radicalism. How…
Read More /402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft. Roger Lancaster (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6v3hz-15cbc0d On Mexico, class, and sexuality. We welcome anthropologist Roger Lancaster onto the pod to talk about his new book, The Struggle to Be Gay – in Mexico, for Example. We discuss: How much is being gay tied…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ztc3a-15c469e On what comes next: in politics, ideas, economy, subjectivity To commemorate seven years of the podcast and four-hundred episodes, we got all our new Contributors in to examine the oppositions and tensions that we think will characterise the…
Read More /400/ The Political Oppositions of the Next Decade ft. Frost, Gourevitch, Liu, Phillips
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sq36e-15bc577 On the withdrawal from hyperpolitics and hypermodernity. [Patreon Exclusive] What comes after a decade of populism? Alex Hochuli talks through his new essay in Damage, issue 2. This is episode is the third part of our Emotion…
Read More /399/ From ADHD to Let Me Be (Emotion Sickness, pt III) [sample]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-adwsa-15b270c Part II of the series: on therapy and vulnerability. [Patreon Exclusive: subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotions. What is…
Read More /398/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (II) ft. Ashley Frawley (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e66yw-15af087 On Benedict Anderson's classic Imagined Communities. [Patreon Exclusive. Subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast] Originally published in 1983, Anderson's account of the origins of nations is one of the most cited books in English in the humanities. In what ways does…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cxska-15aa739 On Portugal's elections, 50 years since the revolution Catarina Príncipe, a long-time activist on the Portuguese left and a doctoral student of political economy, is back on the podcast to talk through what happened as Portugal went to…
Read More /396/ Enough Carnations? Portugal Decides, ft. Catarina Príncipe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-igm8e-15aa606 Turbulent times, ideological confusion. Politics is back, but it's stranger than ever. All the more reason for unflinching critique of the current moment. That's why Bungacast is expanding.Regular contributors are coming on-board: Catherine Liu, Amber Frost, Alex Gourevitch, and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2sknz-159d5a7 On media and the Millennial Left. [Patreon Exclusive: for full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Continuing the retrospective on the millennial left's failures, we invite political theorist Benjamin Studebaker back on. We discuss: Was left-populism a media event? …
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