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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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…
Read More /503/ Effervescent Decadence in the Third Modernity
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…
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…
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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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hbari-18d0b89 On the right to protest. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing editor Alex Gourevitch talks to Alex H and George about restrictions on speech and protest at US universities and beyond – particularly with regard to Palestine…
Read More /492/ The Armed Wing of the Deplatforming Movement ft. Alex Gourevitch
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…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pkgf3-18b2bc4 On what is next for 'PMC theory' [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] The social media avatar known as Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost joins us to unpick the conjuncture: as the Trump administration makes cuts and seeks to…
Read More /487/ Did JD Vance Kill the PMC? ft. Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-avsaq-187dea3 On Perry Anderson's "Internationalism: A Breviary". [For the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] We kick off the second block/theme of the 2024/25 Reading Club on Nations & Internationalism in the 21st Century by looking at a 2002 essay which…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xg3bm-185ee41 On critical theory and autonomy. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Jensen Suther, a junior fellow at Harvard working in philosophy and literature, talks to Alex H and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about art, culture, and socialism. He…
Read More /476/ Freedom against the New Nihilism ft. Jensen Suther
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