https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vvi8s-1521c2b On Ridley Scott's Napoleon. [Patreon Exclusive] We couldn't avoid discussing the new biopic about the "world soul" himself, Napoleon Bonaparte. The film isn't great, but what can we learn from it? And how does it sit in…
Tag: Culture
Excerpt: /364/ The Eternal Sunshine of the Bourgeoisie
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6845s-14b3eb1 On satire of the bourgeoisie. [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast] We discuss Luis Buñuel's "deranged masterpiece" from 1972, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and debate the social ritual of dinner, and why the guests in…
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Excerpt: /355/ F***ing and shooting are not the same
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yfr2d-146dc12 On film and left-wing terrorism. [Patreon Exclusive] We talk about Uli Edel’s 2008 film The Baader Meinhof Complex, which tells the story of the Red Army Faction in 1960s and 70s Germany. What sorts of myths do…
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/353/ Bunga Sells Out ft. Jason Myles
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3h4hz-14645d7 On music, pop culture, and the politics of the spectacle. Musician, host of This is Revolution and Sublation columnist, Jason Myles joins us to talk about how every podcast is a failed band, if pop music is dead,…
Excerpt: /347/ Feminists Touch Grass w/ Amber A’Lee Frost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wnjaw-1439e28 On reactionary feminism. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue our discussions on contemporary feminism by looking at the diametric opposite of the atomistic vision presented by Sophie Lewis: the conservative, communitarian approach advanced by Mary Harrington. Harrington is…
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/344/ Don’t Do The Work ft. Ben Hickman
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rqdfq-141f796 On work stoppages and work-doings. Ben Hickman, published poet and senior lecturer in English at the University of Kent, joins us to discuss his project on different understandings of work, or rather, The Work. What is The Work and…
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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/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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/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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/314/ Shallow & Wrongheaded Filmic Squabbles ft. Maren Thom & Alex Dale
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e6f3q-1366501 On aesthetic criticism & performance. The hosts of a new podcast on film, Performance Anxiety, join us to talk about how a focus on performance can break through endless squabbles over wokeness and representation in film. We also discuss…
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