https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vbce6-13526bf On 'degrowth communism'. [Patreon Exclusive] Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly like degrowth is official policy. Yet its advocates, drawing from the work of radicals…
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Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2urwj-132a63a On Inhuman Power. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the few areas today in which capitalist still seem to have ambition. Why is this…
/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kq4hx-1327722 On "techno-feudalism". In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to explain capitalist stagnation and inequality by arguing that we are moving beyond capitalism – toward something worse. In…
/279/ Society of the Speculative ft. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cjspg-128b425 On our financialised world. We talk to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou about his new book, Speculative Communities. How has speculation become the very practice around which modern societies coalesce? And how does speculation actually give voice to the waning legitimacy of…
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/273/ Eco-Leninism? [UNLOCKED]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9sbfq-127bf03 On the climate emergency. We are specially unlocking this episode of our monthly Reading Club – the concluding episode of the first half of the 2022 syllabus (download it here). If you'd like full access to all of the…
/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qi2un-11e4194 On energy, the material basis for all our politics?Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from…
Excerpt: /212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties
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…
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Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ttqse-10321f3 On consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK. We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent local and regional elections: in the UK, Labour continues its drift to becoming…
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/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones
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…
Excerpt: /172/ Three Articles: Elite Production
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6yi4w-f890ed On Uber, class war among the rich, and its political consequences Articles: The real class war is within the rich, Janan Ganesh, FT Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars, Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow The radical Left is…
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