Episodes
2 days ago
/406/ AufheBonus Bonus (sample)
2 days ago
2 days ago
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If cultural production is already monopolistic, can it be democratically planned?
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Should we problematise "mental health"?
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Is love a dangerous political emotion?
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What happens if you leave the left?
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How do we kill the ghosts of the 20th century?
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Is a generational analysis of left-populism wrong?
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How do we get beyond a world of media and images?
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NatCon: are centrists the real threat to free speech?, Alex Hochuli, UnHerd
6 days ago
6 days ago
- What is the "penis anxiety industry"
- How does it serve individual, cultural and unconscious demands?
- How does 'Big Hard Dick' provide a brittle solution to a deep social problem?
- Is the Freudian analysis passé? Is it phallus-obsessed?
- Does a making your penis bigger and harder help deal with imposter syndrome?
- Does neoliberal capitalism make us feel "small"? Does the liberal elite want you to accept your smallness?
- How might we be big – make ambitious, large-scale change – without falling for fake solutions?
- Size Queen Nation, Christie Offenbacher & Benjamin Fife, Damage
- /215/ Organize the Incels?! ft. Alex Gendler
- The New Superfluous Men, Alex Gendler, American Affairs
- On masquerade vs imposture: How Should a Woman Look?: Scopic Strategies for Sexuated Subjects, Jennifer Friedlander
- Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life, Mari Ruti, Columbia UP
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
/404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV) ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
- What is the bourgeois subject, why was it good, and where did it go?
- What is melodrama?
- Does public crying make us feel connected? Is it all Oprah's fault?
- Why is psychoanalysis the solution to, not the cause of, therapy culture?
- How is indignation used today? Is the political scene just villains and victims?
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
/402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft. Roger Lancaster (sample)
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
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How has popular conservatism served as a boost for radicalism and revolution
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Is there any basis for a 'romantic' anti-capitalism, in Mexico, or in the Global North?
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Is President AMLO synthesising a new politics?
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Has he “ended neoliberalism” or on the way to it?
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How socially conservative is AMLO really?
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
/403/ Reading Club: Habermas on Social Media (sample)
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
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What role do the institutions of the public sphere and the media have in producing, sustaining or undermining this culture?
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How does Habermas' account contrast with B. Anderson on print capitalism?
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Is 'deliberative' democracy a trap? Who sets the rules of deliberation?
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Is a good media structure a 'constitutional imperative'?
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How do interests fit into Habermas' model? Do we need to leave our interests at the door?
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Jürgen Habermas is a major public intellectual. What are his key ideas?, Duncan Ivison, The Conversation
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/362/ Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck ft. Cory Doctorow - on social media
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
/401/ Modernity is Very Gay ft. Roger Lancaster
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
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How much is being gay tied to being modern? And conversely, how much of globalized culture is itself "gay"?
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Do you need to be middle class to be gay?
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Why did neoliberalism provide more sexual freedom than corporatism in Mexico?
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How was Mexico ahead of the US in introducing ‘progressive neoliberalism’?
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Is now a time of freedom, or should we think of it differently?
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
/396/ Enough Carnations? Portugal Decides, ft. Catarina Príncipe
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
- How does Portugal see itself, with regard to Europe, and its own history?
- How did the right-populist Chega party break through amid high turnout?
- What kind of anti-politics did Chega bring to the table?
- Is there nostalgia for the dictatorship?
- How did immigration become an issue in a country where emigration is the big problem?
- What is going on with Portugal's huge housing crisis?
- Why has the EU disappeared as a political issue, 10 years on from the peak of the crisis?
Bungacast is expanding, with new regular contributors, partnership with Damage magazine and more. Read about it here or see the video.
- In Portugal’s Election, the Center Left Struggles to Hold On, João Murta & Guilherme Rodrigues
- Europe After Brexit, Bungacast live event, ft. Catarina Principe + others
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
/400/ The Political Oppositions of the Next Decade ft. Frost, Gourevitch, Liu, Phillips
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
- Right-populism: insurgency or incorporation
- The Left: engagement or reclusion
- Multipolarity: opportunity or restriction
- War: inertia or action
- Work: precarity or militancy
- Green Capitalism: industry or austerity
- Tech: exhaustion or enchantment
- Truth: the image or the word
- Belief: reason or romanticism
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Subjectivity: vulnerability or resilience
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Sex: liberation or puritanism
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Sociability: virtuality or embodiment
Friday Mar 22, 2024
/399/ From ADHD to Let Me Be (Emotion Sickness, pt III) [sample]
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
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If we are disengaging from politics, what is the associated feeling - resentment or resignation?
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Why are our times "hypermodern" – and why is this exhausting?
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What can the examples of the 'great resignation', 15-minute cities, and postliberalism all tell us about the ways people are withdrawing from modernity?
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Why do we need to decelerate to save modernity?
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How might we gain control of time?
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From ADHD to Let Me Be: Taking Control of Time, Alex Hochuli, Damage
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Damage issue 2: "Deinstitutionalized" (subscribe for Alex's essay + more)
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/365/ It’s So Over (Again) ft. Ryan Zickgraf (see also the links in show notes)
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Hypermodern Times, Gilles Lipovetsky
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Social Acceleration, Hartmut Rosa
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Scorched Earth, Jonathan Crary
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
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How was “happiness” a policy concern – and when did it disappear and why?
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What’s going on with universities and their focus on the mental health of students?
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Is there much emotion about, in a romantic sense of deep feeling?
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Or is it emotion ersatz, instrumentalised, superficial, sentimentalised?
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How does affect polarise politically Left and Right?
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Can we solve the crisis of subjectivity by focusing on the self?
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And who is the Big-Ass Subject?
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Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age, Ashley Frawley, Bloomsbury
Friday Mar 15, 2024
/397/ Reading Club: Imagined Communities (sample)
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
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How is imagined different from imaginary?
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Did nations emerge first in Latin America?
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Does Anderson's account of print capitalism still apply – and is it more valid than ever?
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Are we really in a post-national era?
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Does Anderson underestimate the political side – the project of achieving your 'own' state?
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Big news: Bungacast is getting bigger, better
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Regular contributors are coming on-board: Catherine Liu, Amber Frost, Alex Gourevitch, and Leigh Phillips
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
/395/ A Coup From Within the Computer ft. Benjamin Studebaker (excerpt)
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
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Was left-populism a media event?
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Was the Millennial Left just a moment in internet history?
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Having bought into the internet's possibilities, can we abandon it?
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Does it make sense to speak of a "millennial" left?
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Faced with so many dead ends, do we need to "go monastic"?
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The Millennial Left as a Moment in Internet History, Benjamin Studebaker
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Omelets with Eggshells: On the Failure of the Millennial Left, Alex Hochuli, American Affairs. Additional comments on Alex's Substack
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
UNLOCKED /382/ Death of the Millennial Left ft. Chris Cutrone
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
- Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?
- Was the anti-Stalinism of leaderless protests a good thing?
- Did the talk of "winning" from 2015 onwards represent maturity?
- Should the turn to a more public, statist capitalism make us more optimistic?
- How will the 'lawfare' used against Trump play out?
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The Millennial Left is dead, Chris Cutrone, Platypus
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The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006-2022, Chris Cutrone, Sublation
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
/393/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (I) ft. Nina Power
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
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Do we complain too little or too much? Should we be more repressed?
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Political passions were meant to be dead. Has anger overtaken apathy?
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Should we hate our enemies? Is that okay?
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Has contemporary society become hysterical?
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Why does everyone want to be a victim today? How does this relate to self-interest?
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Is evil a psychological concept?
For part two, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast
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What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents, Nina Power, Penguin Books
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Political Ponerology, Andrew Lobaczewski, Red Pill Press (pdf)