Bungacast

[Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Corey Robin's Fear: The History of a Political Idea.  This is March's Reading Club, the third in the Emergency Politics section of the 2022 Syllabus.

14 Apr 20229min

[Patreon Exclusive]   On US proxy wars, Russia's elite, Ukrainian neutrality.   'Three Articles' aims to provide serious political discussion on current affairs that we feel is lacking elsewhere, ...

12 Apr 202211min

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 ...

5 Apr 202253min

On energy, the material basis for all our politics? Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk ...

29 Mar 202247min

On the Freedom Convoy, the indigenous question, and 'anti-socialist socialism'(?) Sociologist and commentator Ashley Frawley is back on the pod to talk about the situation in Canada. With family m...

22 Mar 20221h 4min

In which we respond to listener questions & criticisms. A bumper episode, featuring plenty on Canadian truckers, Swedish populists, ideas of justice, hyperpolitics and much more.  The full episode is ...

15 Mar 20228min

On class & material self-interest. We talk to Vivek Chibber about his new book, The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn, which seeks to answer why capitalism has proven remarkably stab...

8 Mar 20221h 3min

On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception (2005).  How did a darling of the left during the War on Terror become a resource for the right during Covid? Is Agamben right to blur the boundary between fasc...

7 Mar 202210min