/299/ Micropower & Transcendence in Brazil (Bungazão 2022) ft. Miguel Lago
On reclaiming populism. With only a couple of days to go until the decisive runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro, we continue our Bungazão 2022 series by talking to to political scientist Miguel Lago a...
28 Loka 20221h 26min
/298/ Working For Freedom ft. Alex Gourevitch
On shared-labour socialism. Political theorist Alex Gourevitch talks to us about his critique of post-work thought, and how it presupposes the very labour it seeks to free us from. We start of by dist...
25 Loka 202259min
/297/ Bungazão 2022 (Clean & Godly) ft. Benjamin Fogel
On corruption & anti-corruption. When Bolsonaro won in 2018, he rode a wave of anti-corruption sentiment. Now he's doled out billions in pork via a secret budget, but this doesn't seem to bother his s...
20 Loka 20221h 1min
Excerpt: /296/ Last-Gasp Neoliberalism (Trussonomics)
On Trussonomics. [Patreon Exclusive] Having stumbled upon a successful recipe under Boris Johnson which would see greater state intervention, Britain's Tories then pivoted to a much more pro-m...
18 Loka 202211min
Excerpt: /295/ Aufhebonus Bonus: October
On who's responsible for prolonging the Ukraine War + your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We start off by discussing whether the Zelensky tail is wagging the NATO dog, and what po...
11 Loka 202212min
Excerpt: /294/ Reading Club: Conspiracy Theory
On Empire of Conspiracy and agency panics. [Patreon Exclusive - Tiers II & III] We focus our discussion on the notion of 'agency panic' that is at the centre of Timothy Melley's account of consp...
5 Loka 202217min
Excerpt: /293/ Goodbye 20th Century (RIP Gorby)
On the meaning of Gorbachev. [Patreon Exclusive] Mikhail Gorbachev continues to be lauded in Western circles for overseeing the collapse of the Soviet Union without much bloodshed. But given t...
4 Loka 20227min
/292/ Bungazão 2022: Unrealistic Pragmatism, ft. Unbridled Possibility Collective
On Brazil's containment of the crisis. We talk to members of the Unbridled Possibility Collective (Fabio Luis B. Santos | Thais Pavez | Daniel Cunha) about their intervention, trying to look beyond th...
29 Syys 20221h 7min
