Science – Aufhebunga Bunga

/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson

by Alex__1789March 29, 2022Leave a comment

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

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…

Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions

by Alex__1789May 11, 2021May 21, 2021Leave a comment

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…

/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…

Excerpt: /172/ Three Articles: Elite Production

by Alex__1789January 26, 2021January 30, 2021Leave a comment

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…

/168/ Corona, Climate, Communism ft. Andreas Malm

by Alex__1789January 5, 2021January 30, 20211 Comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uiv86-f6b195 On the 'war communism' solution As we enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant turmoil, suffering and lockdown, inevitably the search for systemic causes and systemic responses grows more intense. Swedish ecologist and social theorist…