https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8qcdt-fc4aa3 How to address the political problems of leftwing parties today? Liverpudlian historian David Swift argues that the problem is hobbyism - people for whom politics constitutes their identity rather than expressing their interest in social and political change.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ak92q-f55eba On “culture”. We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture anyway and end up defending “low culture” from Red Hot…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eet6q-f31111 Game writer & designer Jonas Kyratzes joins us to talk about the art of games, the culture of gaming, the gamification of society, and the identity politics of gamer culture. How far has Jonas’ own philosophy influenced his writing…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4ipqg-f2725c Full episode for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On “culture”. We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8qceg-f01ee4 Full episode for subscribers only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast We start off by discussing the beheading of a French teacher for having shown his pupils the Mohammed cartoons in a class on free speech. Then we discuss your points, questions and…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gzxea-ec85e5 Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On Brexit negotiations and state aid; on pandemic policies and confirmation bias; and on Beethoven and access to high culture. Readings: Of moonshots and bus subsidies: How…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xh85-eb8c54 On modernism and its end. We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation. We…
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-25psx-d23aca On film in 2019/20. This is a sample only. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/BungaCast We saw yet more sequilitis the past year, the endlessness and onwardness of contemporary cinema. So what were the worst films…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qv32m-babd54 We discuss Paolo Sorrentino's "Loro" (2018), a dreamlike cinematic depiction of Silvio Berlusconi. Does the film succeed in capturing Silvio, or does it glamourise him? What explains the appeal he had - and why was the left never able…
