https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2g3nf-1acf827 On writing the history of capitalism. Political theorist Corey Robin talks to Alex H and Alex G about what is wrong with Sven Beckert's monumental new Capitalism: A Global History. Have historians returned to writing about big themes and…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9fzr6-1acfb38 On Roland Barthes' Mythologies. Alex, George, and contributing editor Catherine Liu delve into Barthes' 1957 classic to understand the form of ideology critique it proposes – and particularly as it relates to left and right. If the bourgeoisie generates…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wwsvx-19bb5b0 On the middle classes and cultural compression. For the concluding episode of the 2024/25 Reading Club, we discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar, plus some additional short texts on what mass culture is like today. credit: Ryan Zickgraf, based…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nzqgj-1869414 On revolution, epic poetry, John Milton, and freedom. George and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch talk to Orlando Reade, who teaches English at Northeastern University London. We discuss Orlando’s new book What In Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of…
Read More /478/ Should You Listen to Satan? ft. Orlando Reade
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-itif4-1814f8c On Gramsci in the 21st century. [Patreon Exclusive] Sociologist Nathan Sperber and our own George Hoare talk to Alex H and Lee Jones about the new edition to their book, An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and…
Read More /471/ Reforming the Deformed ft. Nathan Sperber & George Hoare
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qf5n6-17f19c8 On David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity (1989). [Patreon Exclusive - subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] We focus in particular on Part III: The Experience of Space and Time – and reflect on the general themes of this section. The central…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vywtd-17ae1be On The Fall of Public Man. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus and the first theme, The Future of Place. We ask is politics possible without a sense of place. Here we discuss chapter 13, "Community becomes…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r6aa9-177c477 On Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity [For access, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The Future of Place, asking, is politics possible without a sense of place. We discuss Marc Augé's…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ivpg4-1773e44 On immediacy, representation, and anti-politics. Anna Kornbluh, professor of English and author of Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism talks to Alex about the cultural, political, and economic changes she refers to as 'immediacy'. We discuss: Is…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vii7f-16fd8c4 On Nations & Nationalism since 1870. [Patreon Exclusive] We start by dealing with your questions regarding last month's RC, on Stalin, Zhukhov and WWII. Then we read and discuss Eric Hobsbawm's classic work in which he emphasises that nations…
Read More /443/ Nations, Globalisation & De-development: Reading Club (sample)
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