Episodes
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Excerpt: OK Bunger! The Problem of Generations, pt. 5
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
The fifth and final part of a series on generational consciousness and conflict.
This is an excerpt. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast
In this episode, we examine the Millennials and Generation Z. Uniquely, generation war today seems to be a conflict over resources more than over values. Is there any basis for this, and what do Millennials actually want? With generational and class conflict seemingly bound together today, we analyse 'Generation Left' and 'Millennial Socialism'. And we ask what the effect of the pandemic may be on the creation of a Gen Z consciousness.
Guests include:
- Paul Taylor, former director, Pew Research
- Jennie Bristow, senior lecturer in sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University
- Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative
- Clive Martin, journalist who has written for VICE Magazine
- Josh Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow
- Jennifer Silva, assistant professor in sociologist, Indiana University
Original music by: Jonny Mundey
Additional music:
- Cacti / I Will Be Waiting / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
- Filthy the Kid / Vampire / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 4
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
- Maren Thom, film scholar
- Alexei Yurchak, professor of anthropology at Berkeley
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Jennie Bristow, senior lecturer in sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University
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Josh Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow
- Arash Azizi, historian of Iran at New York University
- Felix Krawatzek, political scientist at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin
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Kit Kruger / Freakin' Freefall / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Excerpt: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 3
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
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Jennie Bristow, senior lecturer in sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University
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Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative
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Josh Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow
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Jeffrey Alexander, professor of sociology at Yale University
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Holger Nehring, chair in contemporary European history at the University of Stirling
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Kristin Ross, professor emeritus of comparative literature at New York University
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Medité / A Change in My Heart / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
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Ondolut / Blumen / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
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Elliott Holmes / Bull Chase / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
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Kick Castle / Kick Down / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
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T. Morri / Nuthin' but Nuts / courtesy of epidemicsound.com
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American Pastoral Trailer © 2016 - Lionsgate
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Mai 1968 © France 3 Paris Ile-de-France
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Imitation de Daniel Cohn-Bendit © C'est Canteloup
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Baader Meinhof Complex © 2008
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 1
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
The first in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.
In this episode, we look at the current, vexed discourse around generations, and analyse competing theories on how to understand generational cleavages.
Guests include:
- Felix Krawatzek, political scientist at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin
- Jennie Bristow, sociologist at Canterbury Christ Church University
- Joshua Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow
Original music by: Jonny Mundey
Additional music:
Peter Kuli / OK Boomer / courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group, Inc.
Liru / For the Floor / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
For access to all Aufhebunga Bunga content, including the entirety of this series, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast
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 Mar 30, 2021
Excerpt: /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
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(00:04:15) - Interview with Mike Watson
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(01:02:00) - 'Afterparty' discussion on what a counter-culture might look like today
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Can the Left Learn to Meme? , Mike Watson, Zero Books
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The Acid Left, YouTube channel
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin (pdf)
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Excerpt: /182/ Three Articles: Sporno-Vaxxo-Techno-Populism
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
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The rise of the technopopulists, Chris Bickerton, New Statesman (pdf attached)
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Accelerating Decay, Wolfgang Streeck, Sidecar - NRL blog
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Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny, RS Benedict, BloodKnife
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
/180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
On gay liberation and sexual politics.
After big advances over the past decades, we can now ask, did the gays win? And if so, so what? Mark Simpson in the UK and River Page in Florida join us to discuss whether something was lost in that victory.
We ponder whether gay politics was the original identity politics and what happens when a narrow focus on equality triumphs over liberation. Do sexual liberation politics have any future? Plus: how Blairism was the biggest drag act of all.
Readings:
- Anti-Gay, Mark Simpson (Bloomsbury, 1996)
- Being Gay in the Thirties (Gay Life), documentary mentioned by Mark
- Trading in the Past: Queer London, Mark Simpson
- The Standpoint Bureaucracy, River Page, TwinkRev
- The Woke Resurrection of a Gay Sex Panic, River Page, TwinkRev
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Excerpt: /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Readings:
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A Left For Itself, David Swift, Zer0 Books
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How the Left lost all purpose, James Bloodworth, Unherd
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How not to be a white anti-racist, David Swift, Unherd
Friday Dec 18, 2020
/161/ Culture is Bad for You ft. Mark Taylor (UNLOCKED)
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
/162/ Gaming & Politics ft. Jonas Kyratzes
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Game writer & designer Jonas Kyratzes joins us to talk about the art of games, the culture of gaming, the gamification of society, and the identity politics of gamer culture. How far has Jonas’ own philosophy influenced his writing for games, such as “The Talos Principle”? We also talk politics in both Greece, focusing on Syriza failure. Plus, could Bunga co-host Philip Cunliffe’s book ‘Lenin Lives!’ ever be made into a game?
Readings:
- Games & Politics, Centre for Art & Media, Karlsruhe
- Jonas Kyratzes website
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Excerpt: /161/ Culture Is Bad For You ft. Mark Taylor
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Excerpt: /155/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Benjamin Moser
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Full episode for subscribers only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast
We start off by discussing the beheading of a French teacher for having shown his pupils the Mohammed cartoons in a class on free speech. Then we discuss your points, questions and criticisms from September and October (on class politics, antifa, Covid, unemployment and more). Finally, 25 minutes of bonus content from our chat with Sontag biographer Benjamin Moser on the 1619 Project, identity politics, literature, and cosmopolitanism and empire.
For the rest of the original episode with Moser, that's number 147: Podbean / Patreon
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Excerpt: /148/ Three Articles (September)
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
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Of moonshots and bus subsidies: How state aid became a Brexit deal-breaker, The Economist (attached in patreon)
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Sweden’s Covid-19 experiment holds a worldwide warning, Wolfgang Münchau, FT (attached in patreon)
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Why are we racialising Beethoven, Ralph Leonard, Unherd
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We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole, Katherine Yik & Martin Kulldorff, Jacobin
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
/147/ The Past Doesn't Go Away ft. Benjamin Moser
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
On modernism and its end.
We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation.
We talk about his biography of Susan Sontag, plus a range of other questions: Brazil, USA, literature, architecture, sex, imperialism, Freud, the image and representation, and contemporary wokeness.
Moser's Books: