On Turkey's elections.
Alp Kayserilioglu joins us to talk about a crucial election. Erdogan’s rule is seriously threatened for the first time, with high inflation biting into living standar...
2023-05-10 18:07:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe first three episodes of the 2023 Reading Club saw us carrying out an in-depth reading of 2023-05-09 20:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post
On who owns the power.
Matt Huber joins us to discuss his article, "Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid", and how organised labour is central to a politics of plenty. What is the grid...
2023-05-09 15:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
On Nigeria's 'end of the end of history'.
Sa'eed Husaini from The Nigerian Scam podcast joins us...
2023-05-02 20:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
On history-ending technology.
[Patreon Exclusive]
The economist Tyler Cowen recently suggested that radical technological change today marks a turning point in history. Is he right, and...
2023-04-25 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On the US cultural climate.
Renowned/notorious writer Norman Finkelstein joins us to discuss the themes of his latest and last book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It!
Wha...
2023-04-18 15:29:35 +0000 UTC View Post
On your questions & criticisms.
[Patreon Exclusive]
Is the Left dead? Did the turn to culture really kill it? Or is the nostalgia for the post-war Left the real problem?
We al...
2023-04-11 13:13:38 +0000 UTC View Post
On Inhuman Power.
[Unlocked episode from Bungacast 'Reading Club', originally released 6 December 2022]
Contemporary capitalism is possessed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
2023-04-06 13:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostDue to a logistical mix-up / Bezos' generosity, we have a spare copy of Jürgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis to send out to a patron who's a member of the Reading Club (and is based in th...
2023-04-05 13:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post
On cracked-up capitalism.
[Patreon Exclusive]
We continue our discussion with Quinn Slobodian on his book, Crack-Up Capitalism. Is the movement for police abolitionism a case o...
2023-04-04 06:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On cracked-up capitalism.
Historian of ideas Quinn Slobodian joins us again, this time to discuss his latest book, Crack-up Capitalism – the vision of a global capitalism with its...
On depicting dystopia.
Acclaimed cartoonists, writers and artists Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson join us for something a little different: to talk about their new comic book, Justice Wa...
2023-03-28 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
On geopolitical competition over Africa.
[Patreon Exclusive]
In light of the 'new Cold War', we look at what the US, Europe, Russia and China's respective "pitches" are to African count...
2023-03-21 17:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On the crisis of crisis.
Bulgarian critical theorist Albena Azmanova joins us to discuss her widely-discussed 2020 book,...
2023-03-14 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs previously announced, the 2023 Reading Club will focus on three principal works. The first part of the year will be...
2023-03-13 13:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
On what comes after neo-liberalism.
[Patreon Exclusive]
After 40 years of neo-liberalism, governments are inching their way to some new settlement, under the pressure of repeated crises...
2023-03-07 14:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post
On the mainstreaming of racial thinking.
We welcome back author and broadcaster Kenan Malik to talk about his new book, Not So Black and White. The book presents a historical account...
2023-02-28 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On the app economy.
[Patreon Exclusive]
Delivery apps have taken the world by storm, and the pandemic only deepened our dependence on them. What is the price of convenience – and is t...
2023-02-21 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On The Covid Consensus.
[Patreon Exclusive]
In the second part of the interview, we discuss the devastating impact of lockdowns on poor and middle-income countries where the in...
2023-02-14 07:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On The Covid Consensus.
We're joined by two authors whose new book asks why lockdowns were adopted almost universally. National and transnational health authorities dropped pre-pande...
2023-02-14 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On your questions and criticisms.
[Patreon Exclusive]
A bumper episode as we respond to your points from December through to the end of January. We discuss 'political capitalism', where...
2023-02-07 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On the left's understanding of freedom.
[Patreon Exclusive]
We continue our talk with Steve Hall and Simon Winlow, social scientists in the northeast of England, about their new book, <...
2023-01-31 07:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On the death of the left.
We talk to Steve Hall and Simon Winlow, social scientists in the northeast of England, about their new book, 2023-01-31 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
[UPDATE: see bold sections below]
As previously announced, the 2023 Reading Club will focus on ...
2023-01-30 16:37:26 +0000 UTC View Post
On labour militancy and our predictions for 2023.
[Patreon Exclusive]
We discuss what the substance is of the apparent rise in labour militancy in some Western countries, and cont...
2023-01-24 07:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
On the key events and developments in 2022.
We look back at how the world transitioned from the pandemic to war over the past year, and what the socio-political fallouts have been. Is e...
2023-01-24 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The 2023 Reading Club will broach three key themes to understand politics in our current era: FREEDOM, LEGITIMACY, GLOBALISATION.
This year we will focus on three key texts, one per the...
2023-01-18 18:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
On cinema in 2023 and 'anti-capitalist' film & TV.
[Patreon Exclusive]
We continue our discussion with Maren Thom and Alex Dale from the Performance Anxiety podcast. We debate repr...
2023-01-17 13:45:39 +0000 UTC View Post
On aesthetic criticism & performance.
The hosts of a new podcast on film, Performance Anxiety, join us to talk about how a focus on performance can break through endless squabbles over wo...
2023-01-17 13:35:57 +0000 UTC View Post
On the achievement of democracy and the 'impartial' state.
We speak to sociologist Dylan Riley ...
2023-01-10 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post