https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7nxqh-f7a502 This is a sample. Reading Clubs are for patrons $10+. Sign up now at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss a book by leading German sociologist and public intellectual, Wolfgang Streeck. Critical Encounters is a compilation of book reviews, discussing…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tqdkw-f7488d On the Biden administration and Trumpist reaction. We discuss the riot at the US Capitol and why it was not a (failed) coup attempt. How serious was the event, and what next for Trumpist reaction - will it lead…
Read More /169/ Authoritarian Liberalism and Its Discontents ft. Amber A’Lee Frost & Daniel Bessner
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uiv86-f6b195 On the 'war communism' solution As we enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant turmoil, suffering and lockdown, inevitably the search for systemic causes and systemic responses grows more intense. Swedish ecologist and social theorist…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9zuq3-f565c2 On freedom, authority and responsibility. Theorist Todd McGowan joins us to talk about the End of History, what Hegel can teach us about emancipation, and why Slavoj Zizek’s reinterpretation of Hegel is so important. If contradiction is the basis…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ak92q-f55eba On “culture”. We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture anyway and end up defending “low culture” from Red Hot…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gcjbq-f5021f This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We round off the year by previewing The End of the End of History and responding to your questions and criticisms, including Strasserism or left-conservatism, revolutionary memories, more on…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wtwf3-f45ea2 CLR James’s electrifying 1938 history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, has long been a staple of many radicals’ libraries. But we now know a lot more about the life of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q254f-f4100a This is a short sample. Full episode is available for subscribers at patreon.com/bungacast We re-evaluate Christopher Lasch's hugely influential and prescient The Culture of Narcissism. What conjunctural factors led Lasch to his insights, and to what extent are those…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n8npx-f3b251 On censorship, platform capitalism and the Left. We talk to Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books about YouTube taking down their video as a result of the algorithm flagging its content – and what this means for free speech. Then,…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eet6q-f31111 Game writer & designer Jonas Kyratzes joins us to talk about the art of games, the culture of gaming, the gamification of society, and the identity politics of gamer culture. How far has Jonas’ own philosophy influenced his writing…
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