/187/ The Huge Package State ft. Anton Jäger
On cash welfarism and state investment. Plus regionalism in Belgium & the UK. Anton Jäger is back on the pod to discuss the emerging 'transfer state'. We examine Biden's massive trillion-dollar spendi...
20 Apr 20211h 3min
/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones
On Covid state failure + responses to listeners. The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We start off by discussing listener points and criticisms – e.g. is P...
13 Apr 20217min
/185/ Discipline-Flourishing Democracy ft. Lee Jones
On the uprising in Myanmar, plus Covid state failure. Southeast Asia scholar (and Bunga recidivist) Lee Jones joins us to talk about the coup in Myanmar (and why the word “coup” can be misleading), a...
6 Apr 202155min
Excerpt: /184/ Reading Club: The European Coup
We discuss the first of Perry Anderson's new essays on Europe published in the London Review of Books, which focuses on Luuk van Middelaar - described as the EU's first organic intellectual. We discus...
2 Apr 20213min
Excerpt: /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
On memes and the counter-culture. This is a sample. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Theorist and curator Mike Watson advances the argument for "acid leftism". What is th...
30 Mars 20215min
Excerpt: /182/ Three Articles: Sporno-Vaxxo-Techno-Populism
In this latest Three Articles, we examine the rise of 'techno-populism', look at the EU's vaccine debacle, and question whether cinema - and popular culture in general - is being desexualised and porn...
23 Mars 20214min
/181/ Juche in North Britain? ft. Cat Boyd & David Jamieson
On the socialist case for Scottish independence. David Jamieson and Cat Boyd, writers and hosts of Conter, the Scottish anti-capitalist website and podcast, join us to to talk about the prospects for ...
16 Mars 20211h 27min
/180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page
On gay liberation and sexual politics. After big advances over the past decades, we can now ask, did the gays win? And if so, so what? Mark Simpson in the UK and River Page in Florida join us to disc...
9 Mars 20211h 18min
