/193/ The New 20 Years' Crisis
On liberal idealism and imperial overreach. Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism come to dominate the discipline of IR, such that we ...
18 Touko 20211h 9min
Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
On consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK. We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent local and regional elections: in the UK, Labour cont...
11 Touko 20217min
Excerpt: /191/ Reading Club: Ever Closer Union?
We discuss the second of Perry Anderson's three LRB essays on the making and unmaking of the EU: "Ever Closer Union?" Our monthly Reading Club is for patrons $10+. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast
10 Touko 20214min
/190/ Top 5 Fetishes ft. Elena Louisa Lange
On class reductionism, commodity fetishism, and value theory. To discuss Covid, the state as 'PMC leviathan', and the politics of value theory, we’re joined by philosopher Elena Louisa Lange, who also...
4 Touko 20211h 12min
UNLOCKED /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
On memes and the counter-culture. Theorist and curator Mike Watson advances the argument for "acid leftism". What is this, and why do we need a new counter-culture? Is contemporary leftism lacking...
2 Touko 20211h 18min
/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
On Latin America's progressive wave and its discontents. A new book on Latin America argues that 'pink tide' governments tried to treat the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism while allowing the underly...
27 Huhti 20211h 23min
UNLOCKED /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
How to address the political problems of leftwing parties today? Liverpudlian historian David Swift argues that the problem is hobbyism - people for whom politics constitutes their identity rather...
25 Huhti 20211h 21min
Excerpt: /188/ The Huge Package State pt. 2 ft. Anton Jäger
On the end of the End of History and neo-feudalism. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast In a continuation of our discussion on the emerging transfer state, we ask wh...
20 Huhti 20216min
