https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pf73r-1623428 On Futuromania and closing and opening of musical horizons. We talk to renowned music critic Simon Reynolds about his new book. A counterpart of sorts to his famous Retromania (2011), Futuromania looks at the exciting futuristic music of the past and…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ersjh-1613822 On Alex Garland’s new film, Civil War. [Patreon Exclusive] The boys discuss a film that seems designed to say something in the context of a US election year. But what? We ask: What kind of film is…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cbgu9-160f349 On Isaac Deutscher's classic Stalin: A Political Biography. [Patreon Tier III & IV Exclusive] We start off dealing with your questions from the first two Reading Clubs of the year, before Phil takes us through the famous…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ehnff-160631a On US campus protest, the brutalisation of Gaza, and whether this is an age of war. Join us: patreon.com/bungacast Bunga boys Alex, George and Phil debate the matter of the day. We ask: Is the police repression…
Read More /409/ Palestine, Protest, Repression: The Wider Context
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xmbyc-15fcfe9 On the earth-shaking events of the 20th century, through a personal lens. Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch sits down with political scientist Peter Gourevitch to talk about their shared family history. Why did their grandparents/great-grandparents become Mensheviks? How did…
Read More /408/ Was It Raining When You Fled Paris? ft. Peter Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tiscg-15f703e On saving society from the antisocial-ists. In partnership with Damage magazine. [Patreon Exclusive] Trade unionist and researcher Dustin "Dino" Guastella joins us to talk about the deficiencies of a libertarian or antinomian approach to social problems. We start…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v67t9-15f0c4d On Euro censorship + your comments and criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We discuss censorship in Brussels and Berlin, and put it in the context of the incorporation of right-populism. How will European politics come to look as national-conservatives…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v67t9-15f0c4d On Euro censorship + your comments and criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We discuss censorship in Brussels and Berlin, and put it in the context of the incorporation of right-populism. How will European politics come to look as national-conservatives…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3pjqx-15ed593 On the Big Hard Dick industry. [Patreon Exclusive] Clinicians and Damage authors & editors, Christie and Benjamin, tell us why the market for penis enlargement and hardness has exploded. What is the "penis anxiety industry" How does…
Read More /405/ Size Queen Nation ft. Christie Offenbacher & Benjamin Fife
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i8kdf-15e33b3 On melodrama and the bourgeois subject. [Patreon Exclusive] We're back with the next installment of our series on the "emotional turn". Alex talks to Catherine Liu about whether politics is staged in a "melodramatic" fashion today. What…
Read More /404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV) ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
