https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q3anv-d761f8 This episode is for our $10 and up patrons. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On the end of the Age of Imitation. We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning and their arguments for why…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hj7mw-d5d5b5 On political conflict over the next decade This is a subscriber-only show. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We debate what ideological contestation is going to look like in the next 2/5/10 years. Will liberalism adopt Silicon Valley solutionism? Does the…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gqn76-d4eacc In this latest Three Articles, we discuss American democracy and those who pretend to save it or undermine it. Sign up for access to the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Readings: It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cur3n-d161aa This is a sample. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/BungaCast On ecofascism. Both the shooters in the Christchurch and El Paso massacres were declared 'ecofascists'. Now, a new governing coalition in Austria brings together Greens and the hard…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9bpj-d0594d On The Economist and the contradictions of global liberalism. Alexander Zevin joins us to discuss his work on the 176 year history of the magazine that has accompanied liberalism's global expansion. Has it just reflected the world or has it…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vneh7-cf6394 This episode is for Patrons only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On forecasts for the next decade. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack -…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vixyn-b90dd2 On drugs and mental health. In part two, we chat about recreational drugs and mental states in a Hollywood bar with friends of the podcast, Amber A'Lee Frost and Alex Gendler. But mostly, we delve deeper into capitalism and…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cbfcn-c2d83b On environmental protest politics. Extinction Rebellion and the Climate Strike have brought eco protest back to the front pages. But it all seems a bit of a flashback to the 2000s. We examine the protests' alarmism and post-political positioning.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9yrn5-c1e5cc On UBI and social reproduction. Following on from ep. 88 where we discussed post-work with Anton Jäger, we have Amber on to talk about her recent article in Jacobin on Andrew Yang's proposals for a Universal Basic Income.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rda95-c0088e On post-work. We discuss Anton's review of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and why it seems to have such appeal, even amongst elites. There is a crisis in the work ethic, but is it an error to counterpose work and leisure and…
Read More Excerpt: /88/ Vouchers for Toxicity ft. Anton Jäger
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