https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v8euf-19d6108 On post-woke strategies. Ryan Z is back on, talking to Alex and George about the US Democrats' attempt to respond to Trump/MAGA. In association with Damage magazine. Can the Democrats escape the shadow of woke? Is Big Woke dying?…
Tag: Ideas & Theory
/522/ At the Bottom of the Tar Pit ft. Benjamin Studebaker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dj6mj-19d11ff On legitimacy and chronic crisis. Benjamin Studebaker talks to Alex and Lee about his book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracy – and why the absence of the threat of revolution makes the crisis drag on. What's wrong with 20th century accounts…
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/520/ Conspiracy Culture & Paranoid Styles ft. Catherine Liu
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ba8qd-19bd9aa In this special episode, we present talks given by contributing editor Catherine Liu and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style at a recent conference at UC Irvine, co-hosted by the Palm Springs School for Social Research. 00:01:23 –…
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/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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/518/ We Have Never Been Postmodern ft. Geoff Shullenberger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2yciw-19add32 On free speech, the tech right, and politicisation. Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to talk about Peter Thiel, René Girard, victimhood and the antichrist. Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"?…
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/512/ Reading Club: Middle-Class Dreams & Nightmares
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-24ps9-19774f8 On Göran Therborn's article, "Dreams and Nightmares of the World's Middle Classes". The penultimate episode of this block on the middle class, we discuss the differing fortunes and politics of the global North and South middle-classes – as well…
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/503/ Effervescent Decadence in the Third Modernity
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kpfp2-191ef8a On the end of the end of history and what comes next. Phil is back on the pod, talking with George and Alex about the big themes of the podcast. In particular, we look at a recent essay in…
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/501/ Reading Club: The Lower-Middle Class
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-29srs-1915599 On Arno Mayer's "The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem". We kick off the third block of the 2024/25 Reading Club, which is dedicated to the question of the middle class: The abatement of class struggle between workers and…
/500/ Disrupt, Decline, Decay
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-23icm-190febe We celebrate 500 episodes of Aufhebunga Bunga with a cold, hard look at the decay around us. Alex and George plus contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex Gourevitch wrangle with four principal questions: What does it mean to say…
/494/ National Democracy or Globalist War ft. Wolfgang Streeck
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s46r8-18dcd11 On the dual crisis of the world. Wolfgang Streeck, renowned economic sociologist, is back on to talk to us about the crisis of capitalist growth and of democracy. We focus on the solutions proposed in his brilliant new book,…
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