Excerpt: /307/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Dec 2022)
On your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We debate what kind of work 'shared-labour socialism' would involve in a complex society, and what role 'dispossession' or 'expropriation' has in th...
6 Dec 20227min
Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism
On Inhuman Power. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of the few areas today in which capitalist still see...
1 Dec 20229min
/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason
On "techno-feudalism". In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to explain capitalist stagnation and inequality by arguin...
29 Nov 20221h 14min
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
On Mali and the Sahel. French president Emmanuel Macron declared the end of Opération Barkhane on 9 November 2022, bringing to an end to nearly 10 years of French military intervention in Mali. Bu...
22 Nov 202245min
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)
A special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. Previously released in 2021 only to subscribers at patreon.com/bungacast, a year on we're releasing the whole series to everyone...
15 Nov 20225h 4min
Excerpt: /302/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Nov 2022)
On your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] The weakness of anti-EU forces; the implications of defending Ukrainian sovereignty; what should we call the new far-right and what does it *do...
8 Nov 202210min
Excerpt: /301/ Reading Club: Neo-Feudalism
On Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism We start off by discussing your points on the last RC, on conspiracy theory. Then we delve into Kotkin's book, asking whether he has an adequate understan...
4 Nov 202212min
/300/ Bunga at the End of the World
On nuclear exterminism. To commemorate our 300th episode, we discuss how the world is closer to a nuclear conflict than at any point since the Cold War. After decades of inconsequential 'permawar' (a...
2 Nov 20221h 17min
