Climate – Aufhebunga Bunga

/323/ Tasty Frictionless Convenience

by Alex__1789February 21, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ap6yr-13954e7 On the app economy. [Patreon Exclusive] Delivery apps have taken the world by storm, and the pandemic only deepened our dependence on them. What is the price of convenience – and is there anything wrong with wanting…

Excerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?

by Alex__1789January 3, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vbce6-13526bf On 'degrowth communism'. [Patreon Exclusive] Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly like degrowth is official policy. Yet its advocates, drawing from the work of radicals…

Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism

by Alex__1789December 1, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2urwj-132a63a On Inhuman Power. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the few areas today in which capitalist still seem to have ambition. Why is this…

/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason

by Alex__1789November 29, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kq4hx-1327722 On "techno-feudalism". In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to explain capitalist stagnation and inequality by arguing that we are moving beyond capitalism – toward something worse. In…

/279/ Society of the Speculative ft. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

by Alex__1789August 2, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cjspg-128b425 On our financialised world. We talk to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou about his new book, Speculative Communities. How has speculation become the very practice around which modern societies coalesce? And how does speculation actually give voice to the waning legitimacy of…

/273/ Eco-Leninism? [UNLOCKED]

by Alex__1789July 21, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9sbfq-127bf03 On the climate emergency. We are specially unlocking this episode of our monthly Reading Club – the concluding episode of the first half of the 2022 syllabus (download it here). If you'd like full access to all of the…

Excerpt: /212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties

by Alex__1789August 31, 2021September 7, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ba6dn-10c96c9 On net-zero, CCP nanny state, and optimised dating. We start off discussing the HBO series "The White Lotus" before tackling three articles on middle-class anxieties: climate change and pressures on UK living standards; the Chinese state's crackdown on…

Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions

by Alex__1789May 11, 2021May 21, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ttqse-10321f3 On consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK. We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent local and regional elections: in the UK, Labour continues its drift to becoming…

/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones

by Alex__1789April 13, 2021April 17, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7n2ru-10073d6 On Covid state failure + responses to listeners. The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We start off by discussing listener points and criticisms – e.g. is PMC a useful category? Is a…

Excerpt: /172/ Three Articles: Elite Production

by Alex__1789January 26, 2021January 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6yi4w-f890ed On Uber, class war among the rich, and its political consequences Articles: The real class war is within the rich, Janan Ganesh, FT Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars, Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow The radical Left is…