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Excerpt: /363/ Outsourcing the State

by Alex__1789September 11, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ui776-14a1bbd On the politics of consultancy [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up @ patreon.com/bungacast] The past 40 years have seen a whole range of things the state used to do itself outsourced to third parties. Now there is a turn…

/338/ The Energy Theory of Everything ft. Matt Huber

by Alex__1789May 9, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ssgby-14032b5 On who owns the power. Matt Huber joins us to discuss his article, "Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid", and how organised labour is central to a politics of plenty. What is the grid and who owns it? What…

/331/ The Zone (pt. 1) ft. Quinn Slobodian

by Alex__1789April 4, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jnpb5-13d3650 On cracked-up capitalism. Historian of ideas Quinn Slobodian joins us again, this time to discuss his latest book, Crack-up Capitalism – the vision of a global capitalism with its constituent nation-states perforated by ‘zones’ shorn of any national oversight…

/321/ Covid Dissensus ft. Toby Green & Thomas Fazi

by Alex__1789February 14, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p3eam-138ce79 On The Covid Consensus. We're joined by two authors whose new book asks why lockdowns were adopted almost universally. National and transnational health authorities dropped pre-pandemic plans in favour of open-ended nationwide lockdowns which were to remain in…

Excerpt: /296/ Last-Gasp Neoliberalism (Trussonomics)

by Alex__1789October 18, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f8nh9-12edca8 On Trussonomics. [Patreon Exclusive] Having stumbled upon a successful recipe under Boris Johnson which would see greater state intervention, Britain's Tories then pivoted to a much more pro-market approach. But the markets haven't liked it – they've…

/213/ The Leopard Lockdown ft. Adam Tooze

by Alex__1789September 7, 2021September 7, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xwrtn-10d3129 On Covid and the end of the end of history. Adam Tooze joins us to discuss his new book, Shutdown. In 2020 everything changed... so that everything might remain the same. What were the reasons behind the global shutdown? Was…

Excerpt: /212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties

by Alex__1789August 31, 2021September 7, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ba6dn-10c96c9 On net-zero, CCP nanny state, and optimised dating. We start off discussing the HBO series "The White Lotus" before tackling three articles on middle-class anxieties: climate change and pressures on UK living standards; the Chinese state's crackdown on…

/211/ Unlocking the Lockdown Left ft. @galexybrane

by Alex__1789August 24, 2021September 7, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sgbhg-10c07b0 On lockdowns, education, and the left. California middle-school teacher and social critic Alex Gutentag (@galexybrane) joins us to talk about the depredations of lockdown in California and the wider world. How has lockdown affected different segments of society, and…

/187/ The Huge Package State ft. Anton Jäger

by Alex__1789April 20, 2021April 20, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jwdtt-1008d7a On cash welfarism and state investment. Plus regionalism in Belgium & the UK. Anton Jäger is back on the pod to discuss the emerging 'transfer state'. We examine Biden's massive trillion-dollar spending plans and ask if this means we're…

/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones

by Alex__1789April 13, 2021April 17, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7n2ru-10073d6 On Covid state failure + responses to listeners. The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We start off by discussing listener points and criticisms – e.g. is PMC a useful category? Is a…