Bungacast

On Carl Schmitt's Political Theology (1922). We ask why people are scared of sovereignty – as opposed to state power per se, and analyse what is significant about the way in which Schmitt defines sove...

28 Jan 202232min

We take on Italy's election of a new president and what that tells us about permanent crisis, the EU and the curtailing of democracy; we ask how serious the risk of war in Ukraine actually is; and rev...

25 Jan 20227min

On the German Greens' shady history.   Journalist Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist, joins us to talk about her recent investigations into the Green Party, who are now back in power in Germany.   Th...

18 Jan 20228min

On our current attention-deficit and hyperpolitical disorder.     In our book, The End of the End of History, we discuss the move from post-politics to anti-politics; from consensus to rejection; f...

11 Jan 20221h 18min

Bungacast is back for 2022, refreshed and reloaded.   We've got a completely revamped Reading Club, arranged along three themes: Emergency Politics & Control; Cynical Ideology; and Techno-Feudalism....

5 Jan 20225min

On Millennial homeowners, the USA falling apart, and restoration in the UK. As better-off 30-somethings start to get on the property ladder, does this put paid to 'Generation Left'? Will American ...

4 Jan 202210min

For the last time in 2021, we take your questions, comments and criticisms.   As always, lots of debate about Covid - and we start by remarking upon a possible u-turn on the issue on the British le...

21 Dec 20219min

On Eva Illouz's Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism How has the cold and hard world of bureaucratic, instrumental rationalism penetrated the intimate sphere of love and relationshi...

20 Dec 202113min