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Back to SearchExcerpt: /188/ The Huge Package State pt. 2 ft. Anton Jäger
Episode 188
On the end of the End of History and neo-feudalism.
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In a continuation of our d…
5 years, 2 months ago
/187/ The Huge Package State ft. Anton Jäger
Episode 187
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'…
5 years, 2 months ago
/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones
Episode 186
On Covid state failure + responses to listeners. The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We start off by dis…
5 years, 3 months ago
/185/ Discipline-Flourishing Democracy ft. Lee Jones
Episode 185
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 Mya…
5 years, 3 months ago
Excerpt: /184/ Reading Club: The European Coup
Episode 184
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 - describe…
5 years, 3 months ago
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 ad…
5 years, 3 months ago
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…
5 years, 3 months ago
/181/ Juche in North Britain? ft. Cat Boyd & David Jamieson
Episode 181
On the socialist case for Scottish independence.
David Jamieson and Cat Boyd, writers and hosts of Conter, the Scottish anti-capitalist website and p…
5 years, 3 months ago
/180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page
Episode 180
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 …
5 years, 4 months ago
Excerpt: /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
Episode 179
How to address the political problems of leftwing parties today? Liverpudlian historian David Swift argues that the problem is hobbyism - people f…
5 years, 4 months ago