Bungacast

By 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 discussi... more

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The podcast currently has 688 episodes available.

Bungacast episodes:

June 10, 2022 Ruling Class Hysteria (Berlin Book Launch - Audio)
To commemorate the publication of the German edition of The End of the End of History, co-author Alex Hochuli was in conversation with David Broder, Europe editor of Jacobin Magazine at Spike Magazine, Berlin.

The crumbling of the liberal, technocratic order over the past decade has led to a variety of hysterical reactions from the establishment. Faced with new challenges to their authority, they have reacted by calling their opponents "fascist", blaming misinformation or adopting conspiracy theories of their own. How are we to understand these reactions and the apparent conflict between neoliberal technocracy and "populism"?
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1h 18min
June 07, 2022/268/ Emergency vs Emergency ft. Geoff Shullenberger
[Live events in Germany: Berlin / Munich]
On emergency politics today.
We talk to Geoff Shullenberger about competing emergency politics, left and right. Should politics be enjoyable and provide a frisson of transgression, or not? Is bare life all that's on offer? And is declaring the predominance of 'emergency politics' itself an emergency a problem?
Readings:
How We Forgot Foucault, American Affairs
The Crisis of the Crisis, The New Atlantis
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1h 11min
May 31, 2022/267/ South Africa Mafia State ft. Benjamin Fogel
On crumbling state authority.

Benjamin Fogel is back on the podcast to talk us through how South Africa has gone from the hopes of post-apartheid to the Durban riots of 2021. How have corruption, criminal networks, Indian oligarchs, and political forces combined to shatter any sense of a national project? We also discuss the role of xenophobia and particularist and racial politics in today's South Africa.

Readings & Links:
/27/ After Zuma ft. Sean Jacobs
The insurrection in South Africa is about more than freeing Zuma, Benjamin Fogel, Al Jazeera
Dons have KZN in their grip — and Don of Dons Jacob Zuma has the tightest grip, Chris Makhaye, Daily Maverick
No two elephants are alike, Ryan Brunette, Africa Is A Country
Rising vigilantism: South Africa is reaping the fruits of misrule, Landau & Misago, The Conversation
...more
1h 15min
May 26, 2022 Excerpt: /266/ Reading Club: Foucault & Biopolitics
[Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive]

On neoliberalism and biopolitics.

In the fifth session of the "Emergency Politics & Control" theme of the 2022 Reading Club, we take on The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault's 1978-9 lectures at the College de France (no's 4-6, 9-10).

How does Foucault trace a line between German ordo- and American neo-liberalism to biopolitics? What role does human capital play? Is 'biopolitics' a critique or a manual? And how useful a tool is it to understand the management of the Covid pandemic?
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10min
May 24, 2022Excerpt: /265/ Three Articles: Inflation!
[Patreon Exclusive]

On the economic drivers and political choices of inflation.

In the absence of workers demanding higher wages, where is inflation coming from? Is there more to it than pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and the Ukraine war? How responsible is Biden's spending package? And how can generations who have never known serious inflation respond?

Three Articles:
Chartbook #122: What drives inflation?, Adam Tooze, Substack
Inflation Is No Accident, Christopher Caldwell, Compact
Britain is drifting towards economic oblivion, Ben Marlow, Telegraph
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11min
May 19, 2022 Excerpt: /264/ Aufhebonus Bonus
[Patreon Exclusive]
On your comments & criticisms.
We tackle ideological realignments over the use of history; conspiracy theorising; a game-show called The Last True Marxist; whether we've had any progress over the last 50 years; and much more.
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10min
May 10, 2022/262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp
On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars.
We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, "History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past". It seems as if there's an ideological inversion going on, where liberals see history in terms of original sin and cycles of injustice, or at best, want to relitigate the past in order to fight battles of the present. Meanwhile conservatives have abandoned the past. What does this say about current attitudes to capital-h History and making the future?
Readings:
History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past, Matt Karp, Harpers
Ends in Sight: Marx/Fukuyama/Hobsbawm/Anderson, Gregory Elliott
The End of the End of History, Bungacast
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50min
May 03, 2022Excerpt: /261/ Three Articles: Macronistan
[Patreon Exclusive]

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.

Three Articles:
Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc, Interview with Bruno Amable, Jacobin
Why Macron is invincible, Christopher Caldwell, Unherd
Le Pen was doomed from the start, Nathan Pinkoski, Compact
Other readings:
Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France, Alexis Moriatis, Brooklyn Rail
Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent, Sudhir Hazareesingh, FT
Jean-Luc Mélenchon's new supporters: the young, urban working class, Julie Carriat, Le Monde
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8min
April 29, 2022 Excerpt: /260/ Reading Club: Fear II - Furedi
[Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive]
On Frank Furedi's How Fear Works.
Following on from last month's discussion of Corey Robin's Fear, we examine a differing attempt to demystify the politics and culture of fear.
To join a local Reading Club where you are, email [email protected]
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14min
April 26, 2022/258/ Conformist Rebellion ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
On Marxism & the Left.

We talk to Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left. Who or what is "the Left" today – merely the left wing of Capital? And what distinguishes a specifically Marxist critique of the Left? How has Marxism and the question of exploitation been sidelined in favour of a libera concern with discrimination?

Over on Patreon you can hear the second part of the interview, plus our After Party debating the contemporary Left's connection to Marxism, the history of social democracy, and moral versus materialist critique.

Readings:
Counterattack journal
Counter Attack telegram
Elena's substack
Value without Fetish: Uno Kōzō’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’ in Light of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy, Elena Lange
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52min

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