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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.
Episodes
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/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami
On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State…
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/514/ The Expressway World ft. Richard Williams
On living with modernity. Richard J Williams talks to Alex and George about his new book, The Expressway World and how cities have adapted to the…
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/513/ Global Right: LATAM Division ft. Guilherme Casarões
On the Bolsonaros, Milei and MAGA. Alex talks to Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies at Florida International University, about…
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/512/ Reading Club: Middle-Class Dreams & Nightmares
On Göran Therborn's article, "Dreams and Nightmares of the World's Middle Classes". The penultimate episode of this block on the middle class, we discuss the…
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/511/ Britain's Tinderbox ft. Lisa McKenzie
On the UK's working-class unrest. Sociologist Lisa McKenzie talks to Alex and contributing editor Lee Jones about why the country feels like a powder-keg…
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/510/ Couch Potatoes to Screen Sausages ft. Ryan Zickgraf
On critiques of entertainment. New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contemporary cases…
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/509/ The Revenge of Ethnic Chauvinism ft. Orlando Patterson
On slavery, racism, and the politics of freedom. Renowned sociologist Orlando Patterson talks to contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about themes brought up by…
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RE-RELEASE: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, 5
The fifth and final part of a series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we examine the Millennials and Generation Z. Uniquely…
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RE-RELEASE: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, 4
The fourth in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we examine Generation X – the generation of the End of…
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RE-RELEASE: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, 3
The third in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we examine the Baby Boomers – myth and reality. The revolt…
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RE-RELEASE: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, 2
The second in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we look at the emergence of 'youth' as political concept…
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RE-RELEASE: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, 1
The first in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we look at the current, vexed discourse around…
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/508/ Digesting the Four Ds
On disruption, disturbance, decline, decay. We continue our attempt to conceptualise the present moment by looking at Silicon Valley-style disruption…
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UNLOCKED: /201/ Reading Club: The New Class War
[Bungacast is on holiday, so we're unlocking/re-releasing a July 2021 episode that was previously only available to higher-tier subscribers] We discuss Michael…
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/507/ Put 'General Will' in Charge ft. Philip Cunliffe
On The National Interest. Aufhebunga Bunga co-founder and contributing editor Phil Cunliffe joins us to talk about his new book about politics after the age of…
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/506/ Bunga's Been Juicin' ft. Jason Myles
On image-enhancing drugs. Jason Myles of This Is Revolution is back on, talking to George and Alex H about his article in Damage on increasing steroid use…
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/505/ Reading Club: Classes in Bourgeois Society
On Franz Jakubowski's Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism. We focus on a very short section from Jakubowski's 1936 book, and delve into wider…
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/504/ Vietnam's Victory: American War to Globalisation ft. Sean Fear
On resistance and reform in southeast Asia. Historian Sean Fear talks to Alex H and Lee Jones about Vietnam on the 50-year anniversary since the end of the…
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/503/ Effervescent Decadence in the Third Modernity
On the end of the end of history and what comes next. Phil is back on the pod, talking with George and Alex about the big themes of the podcast. In particular…
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/502/ Their Own Personal Jesus ft. Lamorna Ash
On the "return of religion" in Britain. [Patreon Exclusive] Journalist Lamorna Ash talks to George and Alex about how and why young people might be turning to…
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/501/ Reading Club: The Lower-Middle Class
On Arno Mayer's "The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem". We kick off the third block of the 2024/25 Reading Club, which is dedicated to the question of…
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/500/ Disrupt, Decline, Decay
We celebrate 500 episodes of Aufhebunga Bunga with a cold, hard look at the decay around us. Alex and George plus contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex…
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/499/ Shame! Shame on Bungacast! ft. Taylor Hines
On shame, guilt and responsibility. Taylor Hines, an editor at Damage magazine, talks to George and Alex about his essay "Fool Me Twice" in Issue 4 of the…
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/498/ After the 12-Day War ft. Eskandar Sadeghi
On Iran and its Axis of Resistance. Historian Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi talks to Alex about the leadup and aftermath of the so-called "12-Day War between…
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/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh
On technology, transhumanism, and progress. James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt)…
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/496/ Insane-Washing the War (Which Did Not Take Place)
On the war on Iran that wasn't (yet). Alex and George review the past month in the world and on Bungacast: The crazy will-they-won't-they of a potential US war…
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/495/ Heritage America vs the World? ft. James Pogue
On land conflicts, MAGA , and the frontier. Journalist James Pogue talks to George and Alex about his book Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West. The book…
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/494/ National Democracy or Globalist War ft. Wolfgang Streeck
On the dual crisis of the world. Wolfgang Streeck, renowned economic sociologist, is back on to talk to us about the crisis of capitalist growth and of…
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/492/ The Armed Wing of the Deplatforming Movement ft. Alex Gourevitch
On the right to protest. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing editor Alex Gourevitch talks to Alex H and George about…
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/491/ Squeezed Between Two Empires ft. Maciej Szlinder
On Poland's election, its history, its self-conception. Philosopher Maciej Szlinder joins us to talk about Polish politics, society and history. Maciej is a…
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/490/ Reading Club: Who Is Anti-Nationalist?
On the former Yugoslavia and the ethnography of anti-nationalists. [For the full episode, subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast] [Reading Club LIVE: Sat 14 June…
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/489/ Boomer Death Rattle
On the end of the (very) long 1960s. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing Editor Lee Jones joins Alex and George to talk…
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/488/ Homo-Techno, Homo-Solo ...Post-Homo? ft. Alex Gendler
On tech and the last hu-men. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Writer Alex Gender is back, talking to Alex and George about his recent…
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/487/ Did JD Vance Kill the PMC? ft. Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost
On what is next for 'PMC theory' [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] The social media avatar known as Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost…
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/486/ Romania Is Following the Script ft. Enikő Vincze
On Romania's annulled election – and the repeat. Academic and housing activist Enikő Vincze talks to Alex about why December 2024's election result was…
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/485/ Can Games Teach Us Agency? ft. Pawel Kaczmarski
On the promise of videos games. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Pawel Kaczmarski – a literary critic who teaches modern and…
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/484/ No Justice in Politics ft. David Broder
On the charges against France's Marine Le Pen. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Alex and George discuss some main stories from the…
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/483/ Reading Club: Why Invent Traditions?
On the mass-production of loyalty. *** We are exceptionally making this episode of the Reading Club freely available. See the full syllabus here: 2024/25…
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/482/ The Philippines' Dynasty & Duterte's Arrest ft. Walden Bello
On Filipino politics and geopolitics. Renowned public intellectual Walden Bello talks to Alex and contributing editor Lee Jones about his recently published…
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/481/ Everything is Plausible: Oligarchy – or Worse ft. Corey Robin
On Trump's government, his motives and his modus operandi. Political theorist Corey Robin talks to Alex H and contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex…
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/480/ Reading Club: 21st Century Internationalism
On Perry Anderson's "Internationalism: A Breviary". [For the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] We kick off the second block/theme of the 2024/25…
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/479/ El Tarifazo: Trump's Tariff Thwack ft. Lee Jones
On Trump's 'liberation day' tariffs and the end of globalisation. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing editor Lee Jones…
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/478/ Should You Listen to Satan? ft. Orlando Reade
On revolution, epic poetry, John Milton, and freedom. George and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch talk to Orlando Reade, who teaches English at Northeastern…
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/477/ Talking Turkey in the Group Chat ft. Djene Bajalan
On Erdogan's World and the revolt against it. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Historian Djene Bajalan joins George and Alex to…
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/476/ Freedom against the New Nihilism ft. Jensen Suther
On critical theory and autonomy. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Jensen Suther, a junior fellow at Harvard working in philosophy and…
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/475/ Class Power: Professionals, Petits and Proles ft. Dan Evans
On class formation, fragmentation, pessimism and optimism. George and contributing editor Leigh Phillips talk to Dan Evans, a writer and academic based in…
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/474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow
On cities and the politics of development. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and…
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/473/ Make Alienation Great Again ft. Todd McGowan
On Embracing Alienation. Todd McGowan is back on the pod, talking to George and Alex about his book, Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try To Find…
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/472/ Munich, MAGA, Musk, Malema ft. Will Shoki / Ryan Zickgraf
On Trumpworld: Vance in Munich; Musk in South Africa. [This contains only the interview on South Africa – for the full episode subscribe at…
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/471/ Reforming the Deformed ft. Nathan Sperber & George Hoare
On Gramsci in the 21st century. [Patreon Exclusive] Sociologist Nathan Sperber and our own George Hoare talk to Alex H and Lee Jones about the new edition to…
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UNLOCKED: /418/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown System, German-Style ft. Gregor Baszak
This episode, originally published in June 2024 only for subscribers, is crucial backdrop to this Sunday's (23 Feb 2025) snap elections in Germany. For more…
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/470/ Political Reaction to System Failure ft. Tim Pendry
On the world under Trump, and British responses. Tim Pendry, author of the Unstable Times substack, as well as an international affairs consultant, talks to…
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/469/ Draining Europe ft. Anton Jäger
On European decline and inertia. [For full episode: patreon.com/bungacast] Anton Jäger is back, talking to Alex and George about Belgium's new right-wing…
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/468/ Reading Club: Place 4 – Harvey
On David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity (1989). [Patreon Exclusive - subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] We focus in particular on Part III: The…
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/467/ Mosques & Malls & Nation-States ft. Djene Bajalan
On Syria, the fall of Assad, and nationalism in the Middle-East. [Patreon Exclusive] Historian Djene Bajalan talks to Alex about a major rearrangement in the…
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/466/ Regime Change in the West?
On disinformation, NATO vs Russia, terrorism + more. [Full episode for subscribers only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast] We look back at a turbulent last month or…
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/465/ Quick Coups & Post-Development in Korea ft. Jamie Doucette
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…
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/464/ Decline Under The Donald ft. Daniel Bessner
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…
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/463/ Reading Club: Place 3 – Sennett
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…
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/462/ Blame Carter ft. Tim Barker
On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism. [Patreon Exclusive] Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor…