https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rz56m-19c6234 On the crisis in literacy. Poet, podcaster and teacher, C. Derick Varn – who has taught in Mexico, Korea, Egypt and the US, at various levels – joins Alex and George to interrogate the coming "post-literate society". What do…
Tag: Culture
/519/ Reading Club: White Collar & Post-Mass Culture ft. Dustin Guastella
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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/510/ Couch Potatoes to Screen Sausages ft. Ryan Zickgraf
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6ys53-1967605 On critiques of entertainment. New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contemporary cases. How does consensus-age comedy like King of the Hill deal with hyperpolitics today? Is the…
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/489/ Boomer Death Rattle
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mer2v-18c3304 On the end of the (very) long 1960s. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing Editor Lee Jones joins Alex and George to talk through the themes and stories of the month, including MAGA's war on universities, right-populists…
/485/ Can Games Teach Us Agency? ft. Pawel Kaczmarski
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ifhb7-1898beb On the promise of videos games. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Pawel Kaczmarski – a literary critic who teaches modern and contemporary Polish literature at the University of Wrocław – talks to George and Alex about his…
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/478/ Should You Listen to Satan? ft. Orlando Reade
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…
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/460/ The Profane Appeal of Sacred Authority
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ywa5f-177fd24 On Conclave. In our final episode of the year, we debate Edgar Berger's new film about a Papal election, featuring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci as Cardinals and Isabella Rossellini as a nun. Is the film about an alien,…
/458/ The Society of Pure Vibe ft. Anna Kornbluh
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…
/451/ Capitalism Needs No Help Abolishing Families ft. Dustin Guastella
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rnfqn-1738ce6 On pro-family politics, and the US election and labour. [Patreon Exclusive - in association with Damage magazine] Dustin Guastella talks to Phil and Alex about what the election of Trump will mean for US labour organisations. We then move on…
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/446/ The Techno-Fantasy of Perfect Freedom ft. Amber Trotter
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-64zv6-1715111 On egg-freezing, 'having it all', and neoliberal liberty. [Patreon Exclusive] We welcome Damage editor and practicing psychologist Amber Trotter on to talk about "Frozen Freedom", Amber's piece on artificial reproductive technology and different kinds of freedom. Alex and George ask…
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