/79/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 4 [UNLOCKED]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6w4ag-b90dd8 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…

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

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

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…

/78/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 3

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xzb9m-b6ce27 In part three, we move from the Californian Ideology to talk about the Californian reality: class, suburbs and social mobility. We meet up with Joel Kotkin to discuss the new Californian class structure and the end of the Californian…

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

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,…

Excerpt: /75/ Synthesis Session: Order Not Freedom

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5hycd-b463a8 Synthesising what we learned about neoliberalism (ep74), discussing some concrete examples and drawing out the broader importance of it all.   -What gets called 'neoliberal' but actually isn't? And vice-versa? -Was the postwar social-democratic state more racialised than the…