https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yqyh2-141ea06 On Martin Hägglund's This Life. We continue on the theme of freedom by discussing Martin Hägglund's case for 'democratic socialism'. In this episode, we leave the book itself to one side and attempt to "put the concepts to work". …
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Excerpt: /342/ Maybe Don’t Abolish the Family? w/ Amber A’Lee Frost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r6m2e-14161d5 On family abolition. [Patreon Exclusive] Amber A'Lee Frost joins us to talk through recent radical proposals to do away with the family as an institution. Author Sophie Lewis claims that "ever since the capitalist victory over the long Sixties,…
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/340/ How to Grow a Backbone ft. Russell Jacoby
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-betvc-140d57d On utopia and individualism. Renowned intellectual historian and critic Russell Jacoby joins us to talk about his lifetime of left critique. We discuss his early criticisms of psychology in light of the advance of therapy culture over the past…
Excerpt: /336/ Reading Club: Freedom (3)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-478nd-13f2bd4 On Martin Hägglund's This Life. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We continue on the theme of freedom by discussing Martin Hägglund's case for 'democratic socialism'. Would we actually work under socialism, or do we need the threat of…
/334/ Cancellation is Cancelled ft. Norman Finkelstein
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ddqpn-13e700a On the US cultural climate. Renowned/notorious writer Norman Finkelstein joins us to discuss the themes of his latest and last book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It! What unites the leading intellectual proponents of wokeness today,…
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UNLOCKED: /306/ AI Capitalism: Inhuman Power
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g28bk-13d81ab On Inhuman Power. [Unlocked episode from Bungacast 'Reading Club', originally released 6 December 2022] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the few areas today in which capitalist still seem to have ambition.…
Excerpt: /330/ Reading Club: Freedom (2)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gpnah-13d1af1 On Martin Hägglund's This Life. We continue on the theme of freedom. In this episode, we look at what Martin Hägglund describes as 'spiritual freedom', which can ultimately be seen as a question of what we do with our…
/329/ Justice Warriors ft. Matt Bors & Ben Clarkson
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iqz33-13c6dad On depicting dystopia. Acclaimed cartoonists, writers and artists Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson join us for something a little different: to talk about their new comic book, Justice Warriors. Set in a grotesquely unequal world, a police procedural (of…
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Excerpt: /235/ Reading Club: Freedom (1)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rvdiu-13a361a On Martin Hägglund's This Life. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We begin the 2023 Reading Club with the theme of FREEDOM. In this episode, we examine Martin Hägglund's arguments for secular faith presented in the first half of…
/321/ Covid Dissensus ft. Toby Green & Thomas Fazi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p3eam-138ce79 On The Covid Consensus. We're joined by two authors whose new book asks why lockdowns were adopted almost universally. National and transnational health authorities dropped pre-pandemic plans in favour of open-ended nationwide lockdowns which were to remain in…
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