https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2ye2r-14be329 On the end of politics. Is the craziness of the past years, since 2016, ebbing away? Is the establishment back in charge? Journalist Ryan Zickgraf joins us to argue that, yes, the period of 'hyperpolitics' has passed. …
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UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pfdn4-14b41a1 On US politics being stuck. [This was originally a subscriber exclusive. Sign up now at patreon.com/bungacast] We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that…
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Excerpt: /364/ The Eternal Sunshine of the Bourgeoisie
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6845s-14b3eb1 On satire of the bourgeoisie. [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast] We discuss Luis Buñuel's "deranged masterpiece" from 1972, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and debate the social ritual of dinner, and why the guests in…
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UNLOCKED: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-btjba-14ac2da On the radical right in the global periphery. [This was originally a Patreon Exclusive] Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte. Though the latter two are gone, the first three are still going strong, in government for a decade or…
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Excerpt: /363/ Outsourcing the State
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ui776-14a1bbd On the politics of consultancy [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up @ patreon.com/bungacast] The past 40 years have seen a whole range of things the state used to do itself outsourced to third parties. Now there is a turn…
Excerpt: /363/ Outsourcing the State
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ui776-14a1bbd On the politics of consultancy [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up @ patreon.com/bungacast] The past 40 years have seen a whole range of things the state used to do itself outsourced to third parties. Now there is a turn…
/362/ Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck ft. Cory Doctorow
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ih4gy-149972b On the internet being sh*t. Tech critic, author and blogger Cory Doctorow joins us to talk about his new book, The Internet Con. He tells us his ONE SIMPLE TRICK to fix the internet: interoperability. Breaking down the…
Excerpt: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u2rhe-1490532 On US politics being stuck. [Patreon Exclusive] We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that hope is a problem because it's…
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Excerpt: /360/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (III)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9jp7y-148c4ed On the 3rd and final part of Jurgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We wrap up this challenging book by debating some key points. Habermas already felt we lived in a post-truth society.…
/359/ Apollo Gets High ft. Benjamin Fong
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5c8hb-1488852 On the American drug binge. Forget all the stereotypes – drug use is no longer confined to particular subcultures. US Americans are taking world-historic levels of drugs. Benjamin Fong tells us about his new book, Quick Fixes: Drugs…
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