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The global politics podcast at the end of the "End of History". Join us as we chart a course beyond the age of "bunga bunga". [Listeners on Spotify and other apps will only be able to access episodes in line with the tier you are subscribed to]

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/409/ Palestine, Protest, Repression: The Wider Context

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2024/05/07

On US campus protest, the brutalisation of Gaza, and whether this is an age of war.Alex, George and Phil debate the matter of the day. We ask:Is the police repression and associated censorship (the anti-semitism bill) a reflection of the fact the content of the protest unsettles the establishment? Why?Why is the Left breaking with Biden and the Dems over this and not before?How do these student protests compare to BLM? And how do they compare to those of the late 60s and Vietnam?What should those in

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/408/ Was It Raining When You Fled Paris? ft. Peter...

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2024/04/30

On the earth-shaking events of the 20th century, through a personal lens.[Full episode for subscribers only. Paywalled section begins at 01:14:16]Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch sits down with political scientist Peter Gourevitch to talk about their shared family history.Why did their grandparents/great-grandparents become Mensheviks?How did one half of the family leave the USSR and the other half remain?What was life like in exile in Berlin before the Nazis took power? And how did the family

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/407/ Beyond Bare Life ft. Dustin Guastella

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2024/04/26

On saving society from the antisocial-ists. In partnership with Damage magazine.[Patreon Exclusive]Trade unionist and researcher Dustin "Dino" Guastella joins us to talk about the deficiencies of a libertarian or antinomian approach to social problems. We start off with Dino telling us about the Teamsters union, before moving on to:How have American cities developed such problems?What are the pros and cons of the 'Portuguese Model' of drug decriminalization?What is the problem with harm reduction,

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/406/ AufheBonus Bonus

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2024/04/23

On Euro censorship + your comments and criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive]We discuss censorship in Brussels and Berlin, and put it in the context of the incorporation of right-populism. How will European politics come to look as national-conservatives become part of the establishment? What's up with these "sovereigntists" who are unserious about sovereignty?Also we discuss your comments:If cultural production is already monopolistic, can it be democratically planned?Should we problematise "mental

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/405/ Size Queen Nation ft. Christie Offenbacher &...

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2024/04/19

On the Big Hard Dick industry.[Patreon Exclusive]Clinicians and Damage authors & editors, Christie and Benjamin, tell us why the market for penis enlargement and hardness has exploded.What is the "penis anxiety industry"How does it serve individual, cultural and unconscious demands?How does 'Big Hard Dick' provide a brittle solution to a deep social problem?Is the Freudian analysis passé? Is it phallus-obsessed?Does a making your penis bigger and harder help deal with imposter syndrome?Does

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/404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV)...

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2024/04/16

On melodrama and the bourgeois subject.[Patreon Exclusive]We're back with the next installment of our series on the "emotional turn". Alex talks to Catherine Liu about whether politics is staged in a "melodramatic" fashion today.What is the bourgeois subject, why was it good, and where did it go?What is melodrama?Does public crying make us feel connected? Is it all Oprah's fault?Why is psychoanalysis the solution to, not the cause of, therapy culture?How is indignation used today? Is the political

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/403/ Reading Club: Habermas on Social Media

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2024/04/09

On A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative PoliticsContinuing our theme of "the intelligentsia & the public," we discuss German critical theorist Jürgen Habermas's 2023 book, asking what sort of political culture is required for democracy.What role do the institutions of the public sphere and the media have in producing, sustaining or undermining this culture?How does Habermas' account contrast with B. Anderson on print capitalism?Is 'deliberative' democracy a trap

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/402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft....

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2024/04/02

On President AMLO and rebuilding the working class.[Patreon Exclusive]We continue our discussion with anthropologist Roger Lancaster who has lived and researched in Mexico for decades, on the past and present of Mexican radicalism.How has popular conservatism served as a boost for radicalism and revolution Is there any basis for a 'romantic' anti-capitalism, in Mexico, or in the Global North?Is President AMLO synthesising a new politics? Has he “ended neoliberalism” or on the way to it?How socially

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/401/ Modernity is Very Gay ft. Roger Lancaster

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2024/04/02

On Mexico, class, and sexuality. We welcome anthropologist Roger Lancaster onto the pod to talk about his new book, The Struggle to Be Gay – in Mexico, for Example. We discuss:How much is being gay tied to being modern? And conversely, how much of globalized culture is itself "gay"?Do you need to be middle class to be gay?Why did neoliberalism provide more sexual freedom than corporatism in Mexico? How was Mexico ahead of the US in introducing ‘progressive neoliberalism’?Is now a time of freedom,

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/59/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 3 ft. Leigh Phillips...

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2024/03/31

On democratic planning.[An old episode from January 2019 – we're re-uploading it because it's good, and also to complete our new 'Collections' on Patreon]Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski propose we look at Walmart and other giant corporations as sites of planning, not of markets -- and that this fact proves planning works. Rather than rely on markets and market actors to manage production and distribution, we should it ourselves. Do advances in computing mean that the old problems of planning

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/400/ Political Oppositions of the Next Decade ft....

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2024/03/27

On what comes next: in politics, ideas, economy, subjectivityTo commemorate seven years of the podcast and four-hundred episodes, we got all our new Contributors in to examine the oppositions and tensions that we think will characterise the next decade. We say hello to Amber A'Lee Frost, Alex Gourevitch, Catherine Liu, and Leigh Phillips.For all Bungacast shows, including our Contributors, the Damage magazine episode, Reading Club and more, go to

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/399/ From ADHD to Let Me Be (Emotion Sickness, pt III)

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2024/03/22

On the withdrawal from hyperpolitics and hypermodernity.What comes after a decade of populism? Alex Hochuli talks through his essay in the forthcoming second issue of Damage magazine. This is episode is the third part of our Emotion Sickness series on the politics of feelings. Click here for part 1 and part 2.If we are disengaging from politics, what is the associated feeling - resentment or resignation?Why are our times "hypermodern" – and why is this exhausting?What can the examples of the 'great

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/398/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (II)...

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2024/03/19

Part II of the series: on therapy and vulnerability.Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotions. What is behind the seeming rise of public emotionalism and the focus on mental health? How was “happiness” a policy concern – and when did it disappear and why? What’s going on with universities and their focus on the mental health of students? Is there much emotion about, in a romantic sense of deep feeling? Or is it

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/397/ Reading Club: Imagined Communities

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2024/03/15

On Benedict Anderson's classic Imagined Communities.Originally published in 1983, Anderson's account of the origins of nations is one of the most cited books in English in the humanities. In what ways does this diverse and inventive book still explain the world? How is imagined different from imaginary? Did nations emerge first in Latin America? Does Anderson's account of print capitalism still apply – and is it more valid than ever? Are we really in a post-national era? Does Anderson underestimate

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/396/ Enough Carnations? Portugal Decides, ft....

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2024/03/12

On Portugal's elections, 50 years since the revolutionCatarina Príncipe, a long-time activist on the Portuguese left and a doctoral student of political economy, is back on the podcast to talk through what happened as Portugal went to the polls, and the Right won again in Europe. How does Portugal see itself, with regard to Europe, and its own history? How did the right-populist Chega party break through amid high turnout? What kind of anti-politics did Chega bring to the table? Is there nostalgia

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/395/ A Coup From Within the Computer ft. Benjamin...

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2024/03/05

On media and the Millennial Left.[Patreon Exclusive]Continuing the retrospective on the millennial left's failures, we invite political theorist Benjamin Studebaker back on. We discuss: Was left-populism a media event? Was the Millennial Left just a moment in internet history? Having bought into the internet's possibilities, can we abandon it? Does it make sense to speak of a "millennial" left? Faced with so many dead ends, do we need to "go monastic"?Links: The Millennial Left as a Moment in

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/394/ Girls, Left / Boys, Right ft. Nina Power

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2024/02/20

On Zoomer gender and politics.Young women and young men are voting very different from each other – and this is happening across very different countries, from the UK to Tunisia to South Korea to Brazil. Why is there this crossover between gender and ideology? Have women become more 'progressive' as they've gained equality? Are young men staging a backlash against #MeToo? Are young women more responsible for wokeness? Has politics itself changed, so that left and right are culturally and gender

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/393/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (I)...

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2024/02/20

On the politics of emotions and emotionalism.Philosopher Nina Power (an editor and columnist at Compact Magazine) kicks off this series by talking to us about anger, hate, and evil. Do we complain too little or too much? Should we be more repressed? Political passions were meant to be dead. Has anger overtaken apathy? Should we hate our enemies? Is that okay? Has contemporary society become hysterical? Why does everyone want to be a victim today? How does this relate to self-interest? Is evil a

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/392/ The Biggest Country No One Talks About (II) ft....

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2024/02/16

On Indonesia's new president and the End of History.Michael Vann, Indonesia expert and history professor at Sacramento State, joins us to talk through the election results. How did Prabowo go from wannabe fascist dictator to cuddly populist grandpa? Why is Jokowi "Indonesia's Obama"? What is Indonesia's Trump/Hunter Biden ticket? What's up with the $32bn new capital being built in Borneo? What is the Museum of Anticommunism, and how successfully has Indonesia's ruling class rewritten its history

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/391/ Aufhebonus Bonus - Feb 2024

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2024/02/13

On our '1914 vibes'. And your questions & comments.We discuss the parallels between our age (the end of globalisation, the threat of war) with the end of the Belle Epoque in the early 20th century. What might Lenin have to teach us?We then turn to your questions and comments on: Palestinians as surplus population Peripheral countries as 'imitators' Whether Brexit has led to greater political accountability Why Ridley Scott sucks Why contemporary art sucks Bonapartism and techno-populism

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