Excerpt: /171/ Fukuyama & the End of History ft. Daniel Bessner
This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast If liberal democracy has been dethroned, what next? Francis Fukuyama famously declared the "end of history" in 1989. Has he...
19 Jan 20218min
Excerpt: /170/ Reading Club: Streeck's Critical Encounters
This is a sample. Reading Clubs are for patrons $10+. Sign up now at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss a book by leading German sociologist and public intellectual, Wolfgang Streeck. Criti...
15 Jan 20217min
/169/ Authoritarian Liberalism and Its Discontents ft. Amber A'Lee Frost & Daniel Bessner
On the Biden administration and Trumpist reaction. We discuss the riot at the US Capitol and why it was not a (failed) coup attempt. How serious was the event, and what next for Trumpist reaction - ...
12 Jan 20211h 6min
/168/ Corona, Climate, Communism ft. Andreas Malm
On the 'war communism' solution As we enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant turmoil, suffering and lockdown, inevitably the search for systemic causes and systemic response...
5 Jan 20211h 6min
/167/ The Kingdom of God Is on Main Street ft. Todd McGowan
On freedom, authority and responsibility. Theorist Todd McGowan joins us to talk about the End of History, what Hegel can teach us about emancipation, and why Slavoj Zizek’s reinterpretation of Hege...
21 Dec 202055min
/161/ Culture is Bad for You ft. Mark Taylor (UNLOCKED)
On “culture”. We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture anyway and end up defending...
18 Dec 20201h 9min
Excerpt: /166/ Aufhebonus Bonus (December)
This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We round off the year by previewing The End of the End of History and responding to your questions and criticisms, including St...
15 Dec 20205min
/165/ Black Spartacus ft. Sudhir Hazareesingh
CLR James’s electrifying 1938 history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, has long been a staple of many radicals’ libraries. But we now know a lot more about the life of the Hait...
8 Dec 20201h 7min
