Podcast – Page 48 – Aufhebunga Bunga

Excerpt: /87/ Berluscoming

by Alex__1789September 5, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qv32m-babd54 We discuss Paolo Sorrentino's "Loro" (2018), a dreamlike cinematic depiction of Silvio Berlusconi. Does the film succeed in capturing Silvio, or does it glamourise him? What explains the appeal he had - and why was the left never able…

/86/ Monsters of the Interregnum ft. Rune Stahl

by Alex__1789August 29, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4ghvq-baf24e Why hasn't neoliberalism died? We talk to Rune Møller Stahl about his paper "Ruling the Interregnum" in which he examines previous interregnums, such as the 1920s or the 1970s, and the forces that led to the establishment of new…

Excerpt: /85/ Reading Club No.1

by Alex__1789August 22, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8ibsd-bae1e8 In our first Reading Club, we discuss Nancy Fraser's The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (Verso, 2019) and take readers questions and contributions. Readings: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born, Verso From Progressive…

/84/ How To Fail Better ft. Adam Proctor

by Alex__1789August 15, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ku6a2-baefc2 Scenario-planning for Bernie: what is success, what is productive failure? We attempt to "dream realistically" with Adam Proctor (Dead Pundits Society): how far can this wave of 'democratic socialism' go? Bernie will fail - he won't bring in socialism,…

Excerpt: /83/ Now It’s Syrizous

by Alex__1789August 8, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-haqpv-ba00b5 Syriza lost the last Greek elections after 4 1/2 years in power. What happened to the party that for a time represented the European radical left's hopes? Did it achieve anything in power? Many talk about Tspiras' "betrayal" -…

/82/ Socialist Trumplandia ft. Eric Blanc

by Alex__1789August 1, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qr3yz-b9ded5 2018 saw a strike wave in the US, as anger was given material form. We talk to Eric Blanc about his book on the wave of teachers' strikes in otherwise 'conservative' states. How can this experience be broadened out…

/79/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 4 [UNLOCKED]

by Alex__1789July 24, 2019November 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6w4ag-b90dd8 In part four, we broaden the scope, to talk about the Frankfurt School, the humanities and 'romantic anti-capitalism'. If modernity features a battle between romanticism and rationalism, then the hippies represented an attempt to re-enchant a disillusioned world. But…

/80/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 5

by Alex__1789July 18, 2019November 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bsxrj-b8527f In part five, we explore the professionalisation of friendship, by speaking to Dutch director and producer Menna Laura Meijer about her documentary on life coaching, Now Something Is Slowly Changing. The global rise of coaching seems to encapsulate many of…

Excerpt: /79/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 4

by Alex__1789July 11, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tt84x-b78985 In part four, we broaden the scope, to talk about the Frankfurt School, the humanities and 'romantic anti-capitalism'. If modernity features a battle between romanticism and rationalism, then the hippies represented an attempt to re-enchant a disillusioned world. But…

/78/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 3

by Alex__1789July 4, 2019November 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xzb9m-b6ce27 In part three, we move from the Californian Ideology to talk about the Californian reality: class, suburbs and social mobility. We meet up with Joel Kotkin to discuss the new Californian class structure and the end of the Californian…