Excerpt: /335/ AI & the End of the End of History
On history-ending technology. [Patreon Exclusive] The economist Tyler Cowen recently suggested that radical technological change today marks a turning point in history. Is he right, and how wo...
25 Apr 20237min
/334/ Cancellation is Cancelled ft. Norman Finkelstein
On the US cultural climate. Renowned/notorious writer Norman Finkelstein joins us to discuss the themes of his latest and last book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It! What unites the leading int...
18 Apr 20231h 17min
Excerpt: /333/ Aufhebonus Bonus (April 2023)
On your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] Is the Left dead? Did the turn to culture really kill it? Or is the nostalgia for the post-war Left the real problem? We also debate what the functi...
11 Apr 20237min
UNLOCKED: /306/ AI Capitalism: Inhuman Power
On Inhuman Power. [Unlocked episode from Bungacast 'Reading Club', originally released 6 December 2022] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the ...
6 Apr 20231h 14min
/331/ The Zone (pt. 1) ft. Quinn Slobodian
On cracked-up capitalism. Historian of ideas Quinn Slobodian joins us again, this time to discuss his latest book, Crack-up Capitalism – the vision of a global capitalism with its constituent nation-s...
4 Apr 202353min
Excerpt: /330/ Reading Club: Freedom (2)
On Martin Hägglund's This Life. We continue on the theme of freedom. In this episode, we look at what Martin Hägglund describes as 'spiritual freedom', which can ultimately be seen as a question of wh...
2 Apr 202314min
/329/ Justice Warriors ft. Matt Bors & Ben Clarkson
On depicting dystopia. Acclaimed cartoonists, writers and artists Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson join us for something a little different: to talk about their new comic book, Justice Warriors. Set in a g...
28 Mar 20231h 10min
Excerpt: /328/ The New Scramble for Africa
On geopolitical competition over Africa. [Patreon Exclusive] In light of the 'new Cold War', we look at what the US, Europe, Russia and China's respective "pitches" are to African countries – what are...
21 Mar 202312min
