Culture – Page 6 – Aufhebunga Bunga

Excerpt: /87/ Berluscoming

by Alex__1789September 5, 2019Leave a comment

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…

/80/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 5

by Alex__1789July 18, 2019November 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bsxrj-b8527f In part five, we explore the professionalisation of friendship, by speaking to Dutch director and producer Menna Laura Meijer about her documentary on life coaching, Now Something Is Slowly Changing. The global rise of coaching seems to encapsulate many of…

Excerpt: /79/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 4

by Alex__1789July 11, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tt84x-b78985 In part four, we broaden the scope, to talk about the Frankfurt School, the humanities and 'romantic anti-capitalism'. If modernity features a battle between romanticism and rationalism, then the hippies represented an attempt to re-enchant a disillusioned world. But…

/76/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 1

by Alex__1789June 20, 2019November 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dmeqf-b544f6 Special multipart series on the Californian Ideology: the seemingly paradoxical hybrid of New Left and New Right ideas - the synthesis of hippies with yuppies, all tied together with the promise that technology might liberate us. In part one,…

/63/ The Oscars Have Themselves ft. Maren Thom

by Alex__1789February 21, 2019Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jz285-a88b75 On the 2019 Academy Awards. Maren Thom joins us again to see what we can learn from the Oscar nominations. We debate when exactly Hollywood's 'end of history' was, and take film criticism to task for its literal-minded desire…

/50/ On The Market ft. Anna Khachiyan

by Alex__1789October 25, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cqt4w-9d4b1e In which we discuss (post)modern relationships: dating, narcissism and capitalism. Are we all scared of each other? Are we trying to quantify the interpersonal? What does #MeToo et al suggest about contemporary womanhood? Plus assorted stuff on Russophobia, fascism…

/49/ Kids & Confessions ft. Amber A’Lee Frost

by Alex__1789October 12, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-22g6s-9c2afc In which we talk to Amber about the limitations of liberal feminism and why socialism is better (duh). Personal trauma as a form of political argumentation is critiqued. And we debate the unfashionable topic of parenting and families. Maybe,…

/47/ Woke Consumerism

by Alex__1789September 13, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s6mtu-99a3a4 In which we ask whether political consumerism is still a thing. We chart its course from 90s Adbusters-style anti-branding, to 2000s ethical consumerism, through to today's woke outrage economy. Has commodification and cynicism overwhelmed all consumer activism? Plus, we…

/39/ Geopolitics of the World Cup ft. Karl Sharro & Euan Marshall

by Alex__1789June 13, 20181 Comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-apwrv-932009 In which we talk about the politics of hosting the World Cup + the sublots & intrigues that will animate the tournament: hot and cold wars, Salah's revenge, Brazil after the 7-1. Featuring lots of hating on Sergio Ramos.

/28/ Cinema & Hopelessness ft. Maren Thom

by Alex__1789February 7, 2018Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-63z8r-871db4 In which we discuss the Oscar nominees. Also lame battles over representation & why hopelessness has replaced catastrophism.