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Back to SearchExcerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?
Episode 310
On 'degrowth communism'.
[Patreon Exclusive]
Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standar…
3 years, 6 months ago
/309/ Sack of Potatoes ft. Anton Jäger
Episode 309
On atomisation and association. Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone came out 22 years ago and the structural changes he identified then – increasing ato…
3 years, 6 months ago
Excerpt: /308/ A Balance-Sheet of the Left
Episode 308
On the global left after the Cold War.
[Patreon Exclusive]
Has the left declined, been defeated, or is it dead? Is the continuity with the Old and…
3 years, 7 months ago
Excerpt: /307/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Dec 2022)
Episode 307
On your questions & criticisms.
[Patreon Exclusive]
We debate what kind of work 'shared-labour socialism' would involve in a complex society, and wha…
3 years, 7 months ago
Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism
Episode 306
On Inhuman Power. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) question – one of t…
3 years, 7 months ago
/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason
Episode 305
On "techno-feudalism".
In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to exp…
3 years, 7 months ago
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
Episode 303
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…
3 years, 7 months ago
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)
Episode 303
A special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.
Previously released in 2021 only to subscribers at patreon.com/bungacast, a y…
3 years, 8 months ago
Excerpt: /302/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Nov 2022)
Episode 302
On your questions & criticisms.
[Patreon Exclusive]
The weakness of anti-EU forces; the implications of defending Ukrainian sovereignty; what sho…
3 years, 8 months ago
Excerpt: /301/ Reading Club: Neo-Feudalism
Episode 301
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'…
3 years, 8 months ago