/214/ The Leopard Lockdown pt2 ft. Adam Tooze
Our discussion with Adam Tooze about his book Shutdown continues.
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/213/ The Leopard Lockdown ft. Adam Tooze
On Covid and the end of the end of history.
Adam Tooze joins us to discuss his new book, 2021-09-07 07:00:03 +0000 UTC
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/212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties
On net-zero, CCP nanny state, and optimised dating.
We start off discussing the HBO series "The White Lotus" before tackling three articles on middle-class anxieties: climate change and press...
2021-08-31 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNext Reading Club: Woke Stalinism
Out next Reading Club will be on Mike McNair's article, Intersectionalism, the highest stage of...
2021-08-30 12:33:56 +0000 UTC View Post/211/ Unlocking the Lockdown Left ft. @galexybrane
On lockdowns, education, and the left.
California middle-school teacher and social critic Alex Gutentag (@galexybrane) joins us to talk about the depredations of lockdown in California and th...
2021-08-24 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post/209/ Aufhebonus Bonus + Kabul Falls
On the Fall of Kabul, plus responding to your questions & comments.
On this Aufhebonus Bonus, we take your critical comments on 'positive biopolitics' and authoritarian responses to Covid...
2021-08-17 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post/208/ Pangolin vs Lobster, pt 2 ft. Paolo Gerbaudo
What comes after neoliberalism - the protective state?
Here is the final part of our interview with Paolo Gerbaudo, plus the After Party, where the boys debate how convincing Paolo's vision i...
2021-08-10 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post/207/ Pangolin vs Lobster, pt 1 ft. Paolo Gerbaudo
What comes after neoliberalism - the protective state?
We talk to Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book, 2021-08-10 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
/206/ Three Articles: Post-Liberalism
On post-liberalism: loving the state, crushing the individual?
For this 3A, articles from different 'conservative' outlets - but how conservative, and of what kind?
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/205/ The World In One Country: The Final ft. Many Guests
What country best captures 20th and 21st century history?
For our 200th episode special, we posed the question: "If you had to study the history of only one country from 1900-2020, and thereb...
2021-07-27 08:25:52 +0000 UTC View Post/204/ Three Articles: People's Republic of Fleeing
On Chinese investment, Swiss democracy, and fleeing from Afghanistan.
In this Three Articles, we discuss flight or departure in various ways: China opening the gates for its huge savings to s...
2021-07-20 09:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostAugust Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Capitalism
Our next Reading Club will be the essay, "Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Eli Zaretsky - to be recorded on 19 August.
The essay does two fascinating things: it provides a...
2021-07-15 19:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostAre you coming?
Our Book Launch/Bunga Party will be in London on Saturday 24 July at 3pm. We've booked the upstairs room of The Marquis Cornwallis by Russell Sq.
If you'd like to join us (and we hope y...
2021-07-14 17:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post/203/ Positive Biopolitics? ft. Benjamin Bratton
On pandemic & post-pandemic politics.
We talk to Benjamin Bratton about his new book,
/202/ 3 Articles: Clerisy, War, Football
In our latest 3A, we discuss "the clerisy" and how it relates to the PMC; how the EU is doing forever war just as much as the US; and the hyper-commodification of football.
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2021-07-06 06:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The World In One Country...
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2021-06-29 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post/200/ The World In One Country
On world history, 1900-2020.
For our 200th episode special, we pose the question: "If you had to study the history of only one country from 1900-2020, and thereby understand the history of th...
2021-06-29 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostExcited to announce: it's out!
Hey dear patrons, as you probably already know - and are sick of hearing - the Bunga Book is out today.
Thank you to everyone who's patronised us (not like that) over the past couple of yea...
/199/ Aufhebonus Bonus (June)
We take your questions, comments & criticisms.
On this Aufhebonus Bonus, we discuss whether unions are still capable of fighting for their members; the Arab-Israeli conflict at the End of...
2021-06-22 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post/198/ Universal India ft. Achin Vanaik
On secularism, nationalism and identity politics.
India is held up as a model developing country: liberal, democratic, multicultural. Renowned Indian writer and activist Achin Vanaik joins us...
2021-06-18 17:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostRE-RELEASE: /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
In the lead-up to our 200th episode later this month, we're exceptionally re-releasing our 100th episode special this week.
On the 30 years since 1989.
For our 100th e...
2021-06-15 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post/196/ Cosmopolitan Dystopia
On atrocity and sovereignty.
The disasters of Iraq, Libya, Syria and beyond are there for all to see. Why hasn't an emphasis on Human Rights led to fewer atrocities? How has Western intervent...
2021-06-08 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post/195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber
On China, economic reform, and the future.
While the USSR famously succumbed to destructive neoliberal "shock therapy", China managed to avoid it. How and why? Isabella Weber, author of 2021-06-01 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
/194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
On global insurrection and identity politics.
We discuss an essay by the ultra-left collective 'Endnotes' that deals with the same political questions as we do, but comes up with different an...
2021-05-25 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post/193/ The New 20 Years' Crisis
On liberal idealism and imperial overreach.
Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism come to dominate the discipline of IR, such...
2021-05-18 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post/192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
On consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK.
We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent local and regional elections: in the UK, La...
2021-05-11 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post/190/ Top 5 Fetishes ft. Elena Louisa Lange
On class reductionism, commodity fetishism, and value theory.
To discuss Covid, the state as 'PMC leviathan', and the politics of value theory, we’re joined by philosopher Elena Louisa Lang...
2021-05-04 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
On Latin America's progressive wave and its discontents.
A new book on Latin America argues that 'pink tide' governments tried to treat the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism while allowing th...
2021-04-27 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNext (live) Reading Club
REMINDER:
Our next Reading Club will be on Friday 7 May at 7pm UK time. We'll be discussing the second of Perry Anderson's three new essays in the London Review of Book...
2021-04-22 01:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post/188/ The Huge Package State pt. 2 ft. Anton Jäger
On the end of the End of History and neo-feudalism.
In a continuation of our discussion on the emerging transfer state, we ask whether the end of neoliberalism entails the end of the 'End of ...
2021-04-20 11:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post