Episodes
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Anti-Politics & Beyond (Munich Book Launch - Audio)
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
If the End of History was characterised by post-politics, and the 'populist decade' of the 2010s dominated by anti-politics, then how should we understand more recent phenomena? Are the following of a qualitatively different nature to anti-politics, namely: the intensification of culture wars, growing polarisation that does not always align neatly with class, of increasingly hysterical and personalised politics, and of the competition between escalating emergency politics?
To commemorate the publication of the German edition of The End of the End of History, co-author Alex Hochuli was in conversation with historian of political thought, Anton Jäger at the Monacensia in Munich.
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Ruling Class Hysteria (Berlin Book Launch - Audio)
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Excerpt: /261/ Three Articles: Macronistan
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
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Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc, Interview with Bruno Amable, Jacobin
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Why Macron is invincible, Christopher Caldwell, Unherd
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Le Pen was doomed from the start, Nathan Pinkoski, Compact
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Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France, Alexis Moriatis, Brooklyn Rail
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Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent, Sudhir Hazareesingh, FT
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon's new supporters: the young, urban working class, Julie Carriat, Le Monde
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
/257/ How to Boil a Frog (2) ft. Chris Bickerton
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
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Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
/256/ How to Boil a Frog (1) ft. Charles Devellennes
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
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Why the French left keeps failing, Charles Devellennes, spiked
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The Macron Régime: The Ideology of the New Right in France, Charles Devellennes (forthcoming)
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
/254/ Three Articles: Ukraine
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
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A proxy war in Ukraine is the worst possible outcome — except for all the others, Sam Winter-Levy, War on the Rocks
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“Now we're going to f*ck them all.” What's happening in Russia's elites after a month of war, Farida Rustamova, Faridaily
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Zelensky’s muddled neutrality plan is not the answer for Ukraine, James Sherr, FT (attached)
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
/252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
On the fusion of technocracy & populism.
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the "new logic of democratic politics". How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the same time? How does this distinguish our age from a more ideological age in the past? And what can be done to make politics ideological again?
Part 2, which includes the rest of the interview, and the After Party where Alex, George and Phil debate why politics are toxic today, is available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64729183/
Readings:
- The Age of Technopopulism? George Hoare, Damage
- Alex's thread on consensus-through-dissensus
- The Berlusconi - cocktail recipe
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
/236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch (UNLOCKED)
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
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Meet the German Green Party: From "Pedophile Rights" to Post-Pacifism, Lily Lynch (free)
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How a Pacifist Party Gave War a Chance, Lily Lynch
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What's Become of the German Greens? Joachim Jachnow, NLR (2013)
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No End to Neoliberalism in Germany, Bernhard Pirkl, Damage (Dec 2021)
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
/240/ Populist Interventions: Örebro Party ft. Malcolm Kyeyune
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
The first in an occasional series on new initiatives.
We speak to Malcolm Kyeyune of Sweden's Örebro Party about its origins, analysis and goals. Is a new working class politics to be found in direct opposition to the PMC or the 'transferiat'? How does this local party intend to scale up? What sort of issues are on its agenda? And how does it aim to go beyond the impasses of other populist initiatives?
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Excerpt: /237/ Three Articles: Italy, Ukraine, Matrix
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
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How the EU destroyed Italian democracy, Thomas Fazi & Paolo Cornetti, Unherd
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Boringly postmodern and an ideological fantasy, Slavoj Zizek, The Spectator
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Chartbook #70 Draghi for President?, Adam Tooze, Substack
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Excerpt: /236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
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Meet the German Green Party: From "Pedophile Rights" to Post-Pacifism, Lily Lynch (free)
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How a Pacifist Party Gave War a Chance, Lily Lynch
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What's Become of the German Greens? Joachim Jachnow, NLR (2013)
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No End to Neoliberalism in Germany, Bernhard Pirkl, Damage (Dec 2021)
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
/235/ Political Ritalin ft. Anton Jäger
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
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How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics, Anton Jäger, Tribune
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Introduction from The End of the End of History, Bungacast, Merion West
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Did the culture wars ever end?, Q&A with Andrew Hartman, Illinois State
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Excerpt: /234/ Three Articles: Restoration?
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
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Millennials Are Supercharging the Housing Market, Nicole Friedman, WSJ (attached)
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A tale of two elites in Washington and Beijing, Gideon Rachman, FT (attached)
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
/228/ Three Articles: Popular Backlash in Chile, India, Europe
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
On people power on three continents.
We discuss Chile's landmark elections, the first after the uprising of 2019-20, which see a face-off between left and far-right; Modi's repeal of controversial laws that provoked a huge mobilisation of farmers in India last year; and protests and riots against new lockdowns and vaccine mandates across Europe.
Articles:
- Has the Backlash to Progressivism Come to Chile?, Lili Loofbourow, Slate
- In Rare Show of Weakness, Modi Bows to India’s Farmers, Various, NYT
- Violence in Belgium and Netherlands as Covid protests erupt across Europe, Jon Henley, The Guardian
Other relevant episodes
- /93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
- /198/ Universal India ft. Achin Vanaik
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
/225/ Wokeistan & Lebanonworld ft. Karl Sharro
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
On sectarianism & identitarianism.
Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) is back on Bunga to talk to us about his essay "The Retreat from Universalism in the Middle East and the World".
Lebanon has been used as a model for other Middle Eastern countries, even though its confessional system is a disaster. But Lebanese-style sectarianism isn't a form of 'feudal' backwardness – in fact it represents a precursor of the multicultural and identitarian politics in the West.
Who are the enemies of universalism today, East and West? And what sort of political projects are capable of rejuvenating secular universalism?
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