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On Euro censorship + your comments and criticisms.[Patreon Exclusive]We discuss censorship in Brussels and Berlin, and put it in the context of the incorporation of right-populism. How will European politics come to look as national-conse
On the Big Hard Dick industry.[Patreon Exclusive]Clinicians and Damage authors & editors, Christie and Benjamin, tell us why the market for penis enlargement and hardness has exploded.What is the "penis anxiety industry"How does it serv
On melodrama and the bourgeois subject.[Patreon Exclusive]We're back with the next installment of our series on the "emotional turn". Alex talks to Catherine Liu about whether politics is staged in a "melodramatic" fashion today.What is
On President AMLO and the rebuilding the working class.[Patreon Exclusive]We continue our discussion with anthropologist Roger Lancaster who has lived and researched in Mexico for decades, on the past and present of Mexican radicalism.H
On A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics[Patreon Tier III & IV Exclusive]Continuing our theme of "the intelligentsia & the public," we discuss German critical theorist Jürgen Habermas's 2023 book,
On Mexico, class, and sexuality. We welcome anthropologist Roger Lancaster onto the pod to talk about his new book, The Struggle to Be Gay – in Mexico, for Example. We discuss:How much is being gay tied to being modern? And conversely
On Portugal's elections, 50 years since the revolutionCatarina Príncipe, a long-time activist on the Portuguese left and a doctoral student of political economy, is back on the podcast to talk through what happened as Portugal went to the po
On what comes next: in politics, ideas, economy, subjectivityTo commemorate seven years of the podcast and four-hundred episodes, we got all our new Contributors in to examine the oppositions and tensions that we think will characterise the
On the withdrawal from hyperpolitics and hypermodernity.[Patreon Exclusive]What comes after a decade of populism? Alex Hochuli talks through his new essay in Damage, issue 2. This is episode is the third part of our Emotion Sickness serie
Part II of the series: on therapy and vulnerability.[Patreon Exclusive: subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast]Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotion
On Benedict Anderson's classic Imagined Communities.[Patreon Exclusive. Subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast]Originally published in 1983, Anderson's account of the origins of nations is one of the most cited books in English in the humani
Turbulent times, ideological confusion. Politics is back, but it's stranger than ever. All the more reason for unflinching critique of the current moment. That's why Bungacast is expanding.Regular contributors are coming on-board: Catherine L
On media and the Millennial Left.[Patreon Exclusive: for full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast]Continuing the retrospective on the millennial left's failures, we invite political theorist Benjamin Studebaker back on. We di
On the missed opportunity of the 2010s.Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins us to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss:Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?Was the anti-Stalinism of leaderless pro
On the politics of emotions and emotionalism.Philosopher Nina Power (an editor and columnist at Compact Magazine) kicks off this series by talking to us about anger, hate, and evil.Do we complain too little or too much? Should we be more r
On Indonesia's new president and the End of History.For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacastMichael Vann, Indonesia expert and history professor at Sacramento State, joins us to talk through the election results.How did Prabowo go fr
On our '1914 vibes'. And your questions & comments. [Patreon Exclusive]We discuss the parallels between our age (the end of globalisation, the threat of war) with the end of the Belle Epoque in the early 20th century. What might Lenin
On Indonesia: a country without a Left.Foremost scholar of Indonesian politics and political economy, Vedi Hadiz of the University of Melbourne, joins us to talk through the country's politics in advance of the elections next week.Wh
On El Salvador and mass incarceration. Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, has just been re-elected on a landslide. His trademark policy is a state of emergency and the locking-up of tens of thousands of suspected gang members. He also
On how to respond to conformity.Lias Saoudi, frontman of the British band Fat White Family, joins us to talk about rock, popular culture and contemporary unfreedom. We discuss:Why are the kids taking less drugs?Can we respond to ou
Double episode! On Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing.[Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive]We wrap up the 2023 syllabus by taking on the second half of Arrighi's book, in which he analyses the over-reach and decline of the US empire, an
On Dirtbag and the Millennial Left.Bungacast regular Amber A'Lee Frost is back to talk about her new book, Dirtbag — part memoir, part critical essays on millennial socialism. In this episode we discuss:Why "millennial"? Does it make s
On what comes after human rights.Juliano Fiori, essayist and director of Alameda Institute, joins us to talk about catastrophism and organising around "the end". We discuss:What was humanitarianism, and why was it the "last utopia"?
On the missed opportunity of the 2010s.[Patreon Exclusive]Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins us to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss:Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?Was the an
On NATO expansion and the end of neutralityPreviously a Patreon Exclusive. For more like this, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacastLily Lynch is back on the pod to talk about Northern and Eastern Europe and growing hawkishness. We discuss:
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