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Bungacast

The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. Politics is back but it’s stranger than ever: join us as we chart a course beyond the age of ’bunga bunga’. Interviews, long-form discussions, docu-series.

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31:02

/465/ Quick Coups & Post-Development in Korea ft....

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2025/01/28

On the martial law crisis in South Korea. For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Jamie Doucette, who researches contemporary political economy and Korea's development at the University of Manchester, talks to Alex and George about December 2024's coup attempt and the past 50 years in the Republic of Korea. Why is South Korea western capitalism's best propaganda tool? Did Yoon Suk Yeol want to institute a dictatorship? Did he want to militarise all of society, or only politics? How

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01:13:43

/464/ Decline Under The Donald ft. Daniel Bessner

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2025/01/21

On Trump's foreign policy, the 2nd time round.Historian and podcaster Daniel Bessner joins Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Lee Jones to ask how this era of rot and decay will proceed under Trump II, from Ukraine to China and beyond. We discuss: Will we see "America First transactionalism"? Does Trump have a capable cadre to bend the state to his will? What will Trump’s relationship be to the deep state? How important are generational splits in attitudes to the US empire? Will there

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16:44

/463/ Reading Club: Place 3 – Sennett

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2025/01/14

On The Fall of Public Man.[Patreon Exclusive] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus and the first theme, The Future of Place. We ask is politics possible without a sense of place. Here we discuss chapter 13, "Community becomes uncivilised", and deal with listener questions. How does the changed relationship between public and private impact notions of community and of place? How does the maintenance of impersonal relations signify 'civility'? Is impersonality really the summation

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13:17

/462/ Blame Carter ft. Tim Barker

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2025/01/08

On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism.[Patreon Exclusive] Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former president's life and legacy. What do people get wrong about Carter? Was Carter, not Reagan, the start of neoliberalism? How is Carter's much-admired 'decency' of a piece with his neoliberalism? What is 'austerity' and how does it relate to questions of public and private, vice and virtue? What was the

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01:19:07

/461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael...

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2025/01/02

On radical conservatism and global order.Professor Michael C. Williams talks to George and Alex about his co-authored World of the Right and how the radical right has gone global. We discuss: Does academia takes the Right as seriously as it should? What's the difference between the radical right and the far right, the new right, national conservatives, or fascists? How is the right 'global' – not just through international conferences but by being "co-constituted by its relation to the

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11:39

/460/ The Profane Appeal of Sacred Authority

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2024/12/23

On Conclave.In our final episode of the year, we debate Edgar Berger's new film about a Papal election, featuring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci as Cardinals and Isabella Rossellini as a nun. Is the film about an alien, abstruse process – the conclave – or is it about something familiar and earthly? Is the film about the sacred or the profane? About temporal or holy power? What does it say about process and neutrality, in times of lawfare and contested elections? ⁠Why is there so much film

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05:41

/459/ Reading Club: Place 2 - Augé

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2024/12/20

On Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity [For access, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The Future of Place, asking, is politics possible without a sense of place. We discuss Marc Augé's much-referenced 1992 work on 'non-places': airports, shopping malls, corporate hotels, motorways... We discuss: Are non-places proliferating, and what would this mean for society and politics? Are

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01:18:03

/458/ The Society of Pure Vibe ft. Anna Kornbluh

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2024/12/17

On immediacy, representation, and anti-politics.Anna Kornbluh, professor of English and author of Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism talks to Alex about the cultural, political, and economic changes she refers to as 'immediacy'. We discuss: Is 'immediacy' just a vibe, or is vibe itself non-mediated? How does anti-representation in film, TV and books relate to anti-representation in politics? And can we relate culture immediacy to the 'material base'? How do Fleabag, Uncut Gems,

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04:55

/457/ AufheBonus Bonus - December 2024

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2024/12/12

On your questions, comments & criticisms.[Patreon Exclusive] We're back with a final letters to the editor episode of 2024 in which we discuss: the universalisation of 'anti-fascism' as a kind of politics whether there are any actual 'family abolitionists' out there humanitarian intervention in Palestine the hard and less hard facts of US imperial decline the legitimacy of 'existential' politics whether anti-corruption politics are good, actually and why Phil loves Hillary

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43:50

/456/ All Chips on Taiwan ft. James Lin

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2024/12/10

On Taiwan, semiconductors, and war. [Full episode for subscribers only] James Lin, Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington at Seattle, talks to Phil about Taiwanese politics and the country's place in the world, in terms of the global economy and Sino-American geopolitical rivalry. We talk about Taiwanese history and politics, from Japanese occupation and colonisation across the Cold War, to the present day, including: Taiwanese politics in the shadow of the

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01:33:05

/455/ Family Trouble (Damage Issue 3 launch) ft....

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2024/12/03

On Mothers and the institution of the family.We're happy to bring you the recording of the launch event for the third issue of Damage magazine, with whom we're partnered. George and Alex were present for the event as part of a sequence of recordings on the future of place that will be released as a docu-series in the New Year. For now, here is regular contributor Catherine Liu and friend of the pod Dustin Guastella debating the family to a packed-out bookstore at Moma's PS1 in Queens,

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/454/ The Last Man at the Euro Tango ft. Michael...

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2024/11/26

On the End of History and Europe. [For full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] LSE professor Mike Wilkinson talks to Phil and Alex about how the history of European integration fits with constitutional theories and ideas of sovereignty. We discuss: In what way are the conspiracy theories about the EU true? What are the origins of European integration in the inter-war crisis? How did European integration tie into the history of ideas and development of 20th century legal

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11:26

/453/ Reading Club: Place 1 - Simmel/Berman

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2024/11/19

On the maelstrom of the metropolis.[Full episode only available to subscribers. Join at patreon.com/bungacast] We kick of the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The Future of Place, asking, is politics possible without a sense of place. We discuss Georg Simmel's short essay "Metropolis and Mental Life" and Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid Melts into Air (chapter 5, on New York). How does Simmel relate the metropolitan condition to a historical passage from the 18th century to the

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38:32

/452/ Stormtroopers Can't Shoot Straight ft. Malcom...

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2024/11/15

On the military decline of the American empire.[Patreon Exclusive] The Swedish writer Malcom Kyeyune talks to Phil about what happens to the evil empire when the stormtroopers can’t shoot straight and the empire isn’t producing enough star destroyers. They discuss: What happens to international politics in a world of new geopolitical rivalries? How does American industrial decline affect US military capacity and strength? Why is America unable to produce enough ships? Why is the US unable

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35:23

/451/ Capitalism Needs No Help Abolishing Families...

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2024/11/12

On pro-family politics, and the US election and labour.[Patreon Exclusive - in association with Damage magazine] Dustin Guastella talks to Phil and Alex about what the election of Trump will mean for US labour organisations. We then move on to Dustin's proposal for progressive pro-family policies. What actually is "the family" today? Social democrats are proud of policies but wary of encouraging family growth. Why? What would pro-family policies look like, what would they do, and what might

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01:25:11

/450/ The World-Soul Rides a Golden Escalator ft....

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2024/11/08

On Trump's return and the end of the End of History (still!) Historian and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp joins us to extract the true meaning of the US election. We discuss: How Trump's victory explodes so many Democrat assumptions about demography and identity How this election re-writes the past ten years' history Whether Trump still retains an anti-political or anti-establishment charge If the Democrats are preponderant in leading sectors of the knowledge economy, is this a

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05:33

/449/ Aufhebonus Bonus: Nov 2024

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2024/11/05

On your questions, comments, criticisms.[Patreon Exclusive] It's our letter to the episode show where we have a chance to answer you, the listener. We discuss: Has Bungacast gone eco-austerian? Are Marx and Freud in conflict? Is abortion about healthcare or about freedom? Why has the left abandoned liberty? Did we underestimate Israel’s existential fears? And what’s so “complex” about the Arab-Israeli conflict anyway? Links: 2024/25 Reading Club on Place, Nation, Class Direct link

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39:23

/448/ Foreign Agents, Quiet Oligarchs & Neverending...

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2024/11/01

On Georgia's pivotal elections and its post-Soviet history.[Full episode only for patrons] Hans Gutbrod, who has been working in the Caucasus region since 1999 and now teaches at Ilia State University in Tblisi, talks to Alex about Georgia's choice between the EU and Russia. We discuss: Who is Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose wealth is equal to 1/4 of GDP? What is the ruling Georgian Dream's pitch to voters, and how has it turned 'rightward'? Did Georgia witness the end of history, or merely the

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/447/ Brunch Back Better ft. Ryan Zickgraf & Amber...

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2024/10/29

On the US election, messaging and learning stupid lessons. [Full episode only at Patreon] We welcome Amber A'Lee Frost (California via Indiana and New York) and Ryan Zickgraf (Pennsylvania via Illinois and Georgia) to preview the US election. We discuss: Why the campaigns have been so focused on micro-targeting demographics Whether Russians or Brits are illegitimately swinging the election How the Democrats have gone back to being smug Why it feels like Pennsylvania is the only state voting

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/446/ The Techno-Fantasy of Perfect Freedom ft. Amber...

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2024/10/22

On egg-freezing, 'having it all', and neoliberal liberty.[Patreon Exclusive] We welcome Damage editor and practicing psychologist Amber Trotter on to talk about "Frozen Freedom", Amber's piece on artificial reproductive technology and different kinds of freedom. Alex and George ask her about: How empowering is female emancipation from biological limitations and compulsions? Can women now "have it all"? Do men feel the contradictions of this type of freedom too? Is a proliferation of

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