https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x5y6m-1986e1f On living with modernity. Richard J Williams talks to Alex and George about his new book, The Expressway World and how cities have adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century. We talk about New York, London, São…
Tag: Urbanism
/474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-get3e-18334d8 On cities and the politics of development. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex about his book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo…
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/453/ Reading Club: Place 1 – Simmel/Berman
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-anr8b-1743527 On the maelstrom of the metropolis. [Full episode only available to subscribers. Join at patreon.com/bungacast] We kick of the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The Future of Place, asking, is politics possible without a sense of place. We discuss…
/399/ From ADHD to Let Me Be (Emotion Sickness, pt III) [sample]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sq36e-15bc577 On the withdrawal from hyperpolitics and hypermodernity. [Patreon Exclusive] What comes after a decade of populism? Alex Hochuli talks through his new essay in Damage, issue 2. This is episode is the third part of our Emotion…
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/113/ Globoville ft. Richard Williams
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7tamf-d5d889 On global cities. Global cities flaunt themselves to global capital and are shaped by it. They are self-conscious and eager to transmit 'globalness'. But why? And how has the city under globalisation been reshaped? What is the role of money…
/109/ Bunga Goes Ballard ft. Simon Sellars
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xsqur-d4a4e5 On Applied Ballardianism. Is it J.G. Ballard's world? Bunga talks Ballard with Simon Sellars, author of a new book on the great British sci-fi novelist J.G. Ballard. Urban decay, social breakdown, consumerism as social control and the Interzone. Opening passage…
/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…
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