Episodes
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Excerpt: /212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
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Boris Johnson’s push for net zero plunged into chaos, Edward Malnick & Emma Gatten, The Telegraph (attached in patreon)
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China’s nanny state: why Xi is cracking down on gaming and private tutors, Tom Mitchell & Thomas Hale, FT (attached in patreon)
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‘Sales funnels’ and high-value men: the rise of strategic dating, Katie Cunningham, The Guardian
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
/211/ Unlocking the Lockdown Left ft. @galexybrane
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
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 how damaging have school closures been on education? Why has the professional middle class been so in favour of widespread restrictions – and how did the left go from backing Medicare 4 All to cheering on lockdowns in the space of a few months?
Readings:
- The War on Reality, Alex Gutentag, The Tablet
- The Great Covid Class War, Alex Gutentag, The Bellows
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Excerpt: /210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Excerpt: /209/ Aufhebonus Bonus + Kabul Falls
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
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Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
/207/ Pangolin vs Lobster, pt 1 ft. Paolo Gerbaudo
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
What comes after neoliberalism - the protective state?
We talk to Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book, The Great Recoil, in which Paolo argues we are now turning inwards – globalisation is no longer a sea of opportunity and instead fear dominates. How convincing is his notion of an emerging 'protective state', and do either the left or right variants of it really promise us much at all?
Part two of the interview is available for subscribers only. Sign up and listen at patreon.com/bungacast
Links:
- The Great Recoil, Verso Books
- On the 'digital party', Bungacast
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Excerpt: /206/ Three Articles: Post-Liberalism
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
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The real danger is insurgency on the right, William Hague, The Times (pdf attached in patreon)
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To curse social media is to exonerate society, Janan Ganesh, FT (pdf attached in patreon)
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We are all Britney now, Mary Harrington, Unherd
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