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-zqq68-f10200 This is a sample. For full access, go to patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Todd McGowan's Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution - an introduction to, defence and radical re-interpretation of Hegel emphasising the importance of contradiction to…
Read More Excerpt: /157/ Reading Club: Emancipation After Hegel
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y8fkt-edffc0 Episode for patrons $10+. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Polish economist Michal Kalecki's landmark essay, "The Political Consequences of Full Employment". This follows on from our recent free episode, 'It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism' (ep 149) focusing…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iphrs-e9163f This episode is for patrons only. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast We discuss a chapter taken from James Heartfield's "The 'Death of the Subject' Explained", which was recently republished in Damage Magazine as The New Social Movements Against the Old…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-we8w3-e13c17 This episode is for patrons $10 and up. Please sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On the Ehrenreich's re-evaluation of the Professional-Managerial Class. We discuss Barbara and John Ehrenreich's "Death of a Yuppy Dream". Also attached are the Ehrenreichs' analyses from…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ubvmn-da4935 On whether new tech can help build decentralised socialism. We discuss Evgeny Morozov's New Left Review essay, Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data. A useful companion to this (mentioned by George in the episode)…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q3anv-d761f8 This episode is for our $10 and up patrons. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On the end of the Age of Imitation. We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning and their arguments for why…
Read More Excerpt: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xsqur-d4a4e5 On Applied Ballardianism. Is it J.G. Ballard's world? Bunga talks Ballard with Simon Sellars, author of a new book on the great British sci-fi novelist J.G. Ballard. Urban decay, social breakdown, consumerism as social control and the Interzone. Opening passage…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9bpj-d0594d On The Economist and the contradictions of global liberalism. Alexander Zevin joins us to discuss his work on the 176 year history of the magazine that has accompanied liberalism's global expansion. Has it just reflected the world or has it…
Read More /104/ The Aristocracy of Finance ft. Alexander Zevin
Aufhebunga Bunga 