May Reading Club
The next Reading Club will be on Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics, chs. 4-6; 9-10 (attached).
We'll be recording on Wednesday 25 May, so do get your questions and points in...
2022-05-06 12:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Aufhebunga Bunga posts
/261/ Three Articles: Macronistan
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We analyse the French presidential election results, the country's geographical and class divides, and what a second term for Macron means for the EU.
Th...
2022-05-03 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post/259/ Conformist Rebellion (2) ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
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On Marxist critiques of the Left.
The second part of our interview with Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, 2022-04-26 14:54:48 +0000 UTC View Post
/258/ Conformist Rebellion ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
On Marxism & the Left.
We talk to Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, 2022-04-26 14:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
/257/ How to Boil a Frog (2) ft. Chris Bickerton
The second part of our double ep on France's presidential election.
Ahead of the second round, we discuss how likely a Le Pen victory could be and the effect of Zemmour’s candidacy – whic...
2022-04-20 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBungacast is five!
It's five years since our first episode came out and we wanted to thank you all for the engagement and support - both with the podcast and the wider intellectual project.
Since April 20...
2022-04-19 18:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post/256/ How to Boil a Frog (1) ft. Charles Devellennes
On France's presidential elections.
We talk to Charles Devellennes to digest the first round, which saw centre-right M...
2022-04-19 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post/254/ Three Articles: Ukraine
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On US proxy wars, Russia's elite, Ukrainian neutrality.
'Three Articles' aims to provide serious political discussion on current affairs that we feel is lacking else...
2022-04-12 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post/253/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics pt.2, ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
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On toxic politics.
We continue our interview with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti on his 2022-04-05 06:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
/252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
On the fusion of technocracy & populism.
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, 2022-04-05 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
/251/ Oil & Disorder, pt 2 ft. Helen Thompson
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The second part of our discussion with Helen Thompson, including our After Party. Helen explains why she is sceptical about the promise of green energy and discusses how e...
2022-03-29 07:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson
On energy, the material basis for all our politics?
Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of 2022-03-29 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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/249/ Dances with Truckers ft. Ashley Frawley
On the Freedom Convoy, the indigenous question, and 'anti-socialist socialism'(?)
Sociologist and commentator Ashley Frawley is back on the pod to talk about the situation in Canada. With fam...
2022-03-22 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post/248/ Aufhebonus Bonus
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In which we respond to listener questions & criticisms.
A bumper episode, featuring plenty on Canadian truckers, Swedish populists, ideas of justice, hyperpoliti...
2022-03-15 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNext Reading Club (March)
The next Reading Club will be on Corey Robin's Fear: The History of a Polit...
2022-03-14 19:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post/247/ Why Isn't There Revolution pt. 2, ft. Vivek Chibber
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On nostalgia, populism and postmodernism.
In the second part of the interview, we deal with contemporary political questions. Why is everyone nostalgic for the postw...
2022-03-08 06:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post/246/ Why Isn't There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber
On class & material self-interest.
We talk to Vivek Chibber about his new book, The Clas...
2022-03-08 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post/244/ Bunga NYC: Live Debate ft. Adam Tooze
On The End of the End of History
On 22 February 2022, at The People's Forum in Manhattan, Alex Hochuli and Adam Tooze were in conversation on the themes of the Bunga book and what co...
2022-03-01 11:55:40 +0000 UTC View PostLivestream: Bunga in NYC - Debate + Book Launch
Alex Hochuli & Adam Tooze in conversation, chaired by Christie Offenbacher (Damage Magazine). 7pm ET.
2022-02-22 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post/243/ Bureaucracy Rules OK pt. 2, ft. Michael Lind
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Part two of the interview with Michael Lind + the After-Party
Is geopolitical conflict the only way the working class can extract concessions from states? And ...
2022-02-22 14:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post/242/ Bureaucracy Rules OK ft. Michael Lind
On class wars, new and old.
Michael Lind, Professor of Practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, joins us to talk about what it might take to restore working class power in ...
2022-02-22 14:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post/241/ Three Articles: Peace & Social War in North America
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On dovish conservatives, Trumpist coup-mongers and Canadian truckers.
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Live debate/book launch in NYC, Feb 22nd: 2022-02-15 13:18:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Bunga in NYC
Hey friends in the New York area, come join us for a live debate/book launch on Tuesday February 22nd at 7pm, at The People's Forum.
And we'll be going for drinks afterwards nearby.
... 2022-02-09 18:12:12 +0000 UTC View Post/240/ Populist Interventions: Örebro Party ft. Malcolm Kyeyune
The first in an occasional series on new initiatives.
We speak to Malcolm Kyeyune of Sweden's Örebro Party about its orig...
2022-02-08 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary Reading Club
The next Reading Club will be recored on Friday 4 March, so get your questions and comments in by then. We will be discussing Giorgio Amamben's 2022-02-07 19:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post
/239/ Against Justice ft. Ross Wolfe
On the critique of egalitarian ideology.
We talk to writer Ross Wolfe about his essay "Marxism Contra Justice". Given that struggles for justice have been central to all sorts of radical move...
2022-02-01 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post/237/ Three Articles: Italy, Ukraine, Matrix
We take on Italy's election of a new president and what that tells us about permanent crisis, the EU and the curtailing of democracy; we ask how serious the risk of war in Ukraine actually is; and ...
2022-01-25 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostReminder: RC on Schmitt this Thursday
The recording of the first 2022 Reading Club will be this Thursday (27 Jan, 15h00 GMT).
If you want to sen...
2022-01-24 13:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post/236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch
On the German Greens' shady history.
Journalist Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist, joins us to talk about her recent investigations...
2022-01-18 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostReading Club: January - Emergency Politics I
We'll be discussing Carl Schmitt's 1922 work Political Theology.
The recording will be on 27 January, so get your questions in by then.
2022-01-12 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post