Episodes
4 days ago
4 days ago
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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 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 Jan 09, 2024
Excerpt: /382/ Death of the Millennial Left ft. Chris Cutrone
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
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Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?
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Was the anti-Stalinism of leaderless protests a good thing?
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Did the talk of "winning" from 2015 onwards represent maturity?
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Should the turn to a more public, statist capitalism make us more optimistic?
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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
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
[FROM THE VAULT] /74/ Order Not Freedom ft. Quinn Slobodian
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
FROM THE VAULT: GEORGE'S PICK (2)
On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. We talk to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neoliberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why does neoliberalism talk about freedom, but promote order? Is neoliberalism about more or less state - or is it about what kind of state?
Plus why the genuine neoliberals didn’t care about the Cold War and how Murray Rothbard laid the ground for Trump.
Readings:
- Globalists, Quinn Slobodian
- Neoliberalism’s World Order, Adam Tooze
- Why I am not a conservative, F.A. von Hayek
- The EU is a betrayal of Europe’s exceptionalism, Douglas Carswell
Subscribe for access to the Synthesis Session, where the guys discuss the broader implications: patreon.com/bungacast
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
[FROM THE VAULT] /46/ Exiting Capitalist Realism
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
FROM THE VAULT: PHIL'S PICK (2)
The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time - the age of 'TINA' and the end of history - was acutely described by Fisher. But did it only really describe Britain? And has the world now entered a new period?
Readings:
Capitalist Realism http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalist-realism
'Exiting the Vampire Castle' https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/mark-fisher/exiting-vampire-castle
Mark Fisher's k-punk blog https://k-punk.org/
Cover image: 📸 Stephanie Jung
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
/379/ Sexy Pictures of Taylor Swift (Not Brexit)
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
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Why all the fuss for Brexit, when things have ended up the same as they were before?
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Why Brexit when the same politicians are still in charge?
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Why was no section of society able to lead Brexit with a positive vision of the future?
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Did Brexiteers need a more concrete proposal beyond "democracy"?
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What lessons can be learned from Brexit by others in the EU?
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
/377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
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Was the pandemic another success for the 'lucky country'?
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How was the Australian state transformed from the 1970s to the 2020s?
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Why was Australia's pandemic planning inadequate?
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What was up with the hotel-based quarantines?
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Why did the public largely support these measure?
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And what can the rest of the world learn from the experience?
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Excerpt: /375/ From Hyperliberalism to the Grayzone
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
- How does John Gray use Hobbes and the idea of a Leviathan?
- What is a "state of nature", and what would an artificial state of nature be?
- Is Gray right in this characterization of liberalism?
- Is hyperliberalism the product of liberalism's decay?
- What is postliberalism and how does Gray’s project fit with it?
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Pseudo-Leviathans, George Hoare, Damage
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
/374/ You’re Gonna Need Representation ft. Vincent Bevins
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
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Why were protests in places that were so different all look so similar?
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Why was there such a focus on spontaneity, leaderlessness, peformativity, and horizontalism?
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What are some examples of the ways protests rejected representation?
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Was class or generation more important in driving these protests?
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Why did media becomes so important in pursuing political change?
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How can we avoid a repeat of the failures of the 2010s?
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, Vincent Bevins, Public Affairs
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The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?, Vincent Bevins, The Guardian
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The End of the End of History: Politics in the 21st Century, Bungacast authors, Zer0 Books
Monday Oct 09, 2023
/366/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (IV)
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
- Why the West's elites invented a permacrisis, Thomas Fazi, Unherd
- Welcome to the world of the polycrisis, Adam Tooze, FT
- Year in a word: Polycrisis, Jonathan Derbyshire, FT
- On the crisis of crisis: /327/ Capitalism on Edge ft. Albena Azmanova
- On the structural reasons why the regime survives: /246/ Why Isn’t There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
/362/ Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck ft. Cory Doctorow
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
- The Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation, Cory Doctorow, Verso
- Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow's blog
- Big Tech and the Current Challenges Facing the Class Struggle, Tricontinental Institute
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Excerpt: /360/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (III)
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
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Legitimation Crisis, Jurgen Habermas
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The Return of the Repressed, Wolfgang Streeck, NLR 104, March–April 2017
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
/356/ Land of the Unfree ft. Sohrab Ahmari
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Excerpt: /354/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (II)
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Excerpt: /350/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (1)
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023