/76/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 1

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dmeqf-b544f6 Special multipart series on the Californian Ideology: the seemingly paradoxical hybrid of New Left and New Right ideas - the synthesis of hippies with yuppies, all tied together with the promise that technology might liberate us. In part one,…

Excerpt: /75/ Synthesis Session: Order Not Freedom

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5hycd-b463a8 Synthesising what we learned about neoliberalism (ep74), discussing some concrete examples and drawing out the broader importance of it all.   -What gets called 'neoliberal' but actually isn't? And vice-versa? -Was the postwar social-democratic state more racialised than the…

/72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani [UNLOCKED]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s8akx-b2dc81 On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plus some stuff about wolves and also Brexit.   Reading:…

Preview: /73/ Eurosads ft. Anton Jäger & Catarina Príncipe

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5uac4-b29710 [For the full episode, please subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] On the European Parliamentary elections. Is this the day the 20th century truly died? Traditional social democratic and conservative parties took a pounding. The Greens surged. The populists didn't surge -…

Preview: /72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hce9b-b22518 [PREVIEW. For full episode, subscribe.]   On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plus some stuff about…