/23/ Bonus - 2017: Year in Review

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/23/ Bonus - 2017: Year in Review

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28 minutes

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Dec 29, 2017

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In which we hand out the prizes that really matter - the golden Bungas.

Released:

Dec 29, 2017

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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’.

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/25/ Prometheans Unite! ft. Leigh Phillips: In which we discuss environmentalism: how to really be against austerity & why we need democratic planning by Bungacast
61 min listen
/28/ Cinema & Hopelessness ft. Maren Thom: In which we discuss the Oscar nominees. Also lame battles over representation & why hopelessness has replaced catastrophism. by Bungacast
59 min listen
/21/ Be Normie ft. Angela Nagle: In which we take on morality, ethics, identity, and solidarity... and that Internet everyone's always going on about. by Bungacast
66 min listen
/31/ Woke Neoliberalism ft. James Heartfield: In which we debate the 'equal opportunities revolution': how race & gender has changed, in the workplace & beyond by Bungacast
87 min listen
/19/ New Clarity? ft. Michael Brooks: In which we chat new alt-media, the US left, and Trump's Middle East policy by Bungacast
40 min listen
/35/ (Dis)Arm the People? ft. Reid Kane: In which we delve into the gun control debate: are guns really essential for democracy? Plus, the 2018 UK university strike. by Bungacast
66 min listen
/27/ After Zuma ft. Sean Jacobs: In which we explore what Ramaphosa's South Africa will be like. Plus BRICS, Pan-Africanism, and @AfricasACountry by Bungacast
82 min listen
/42/ Erdogan Ever-Present? ft. Yasemin Yilmaz: In which we survey Turkey's election results in light of five years of tumult - Gezi, economic downturn, terrorist attacks, Syrian war, coup, repression. Are cracks beginning to show for Erdogan? He teamed up with ultranationalists, while opposition ... by Bungacast
42 min listen
/39/ Geopolitics of the World Cup ft. Karl Sharro & Euan Marshall: In which we talk about the politics of hosting the World Cup + the sublots & intrigues that will animate the tournament: hot and cold wars, Salah's revenge, Brazil after the 7-1. Featuring lots of hating on Sergio Ramos. by Bungacast
69 min listen
/24/ #IranProtest ft. Arash Azizi: In which we learn the extent to which the protests challenge the Islamic Republic itself. Also, why such little support from the Western Left? by Bungacast
44 min listen
/29/ Therapeutic Politics ft. Ashley Frawley: In which we ask whether capitalism makes us mentally ill. Also, moral panics & why PC follows political defeats by Bungacast
60 min listen
/23/ Bonus - 2017: Year in Review: In which we hand out the prizes that really matter - the golden Bungas. by Bungacast
28 min listen
/66/ An Economics for the Many ft. James Meadway: On 'Corbynomics'. We talk to James Meadway, former advisor to the UK's Shadow Chancellor, about what a Corbyn government could and should do. What is the scope for manoeuver of a Left Government in 2019? What does a British 'Green New Deal' look like... by Bungacast
56 min listen
/47/ Woke Consumerism: In which we ask whether political consumerism is still a thing. We chart its course from 90s Adbusters-style anti-branding, to 2000s ethical consumerism, through to today's woke outrage economy. Has commodification and cynicism overwhelmed all consum... by Bungacast
48 min listen
/26/ Prometheans United ft. Leigh Phillips: Bonus! In which Leigh stays with us to discuss innovation, automation, UBI... & why the wages are too damn low. by Bungacast
38 min listen
/22/ Sport & Scandal: In which we discuss Fifa, football and corruption. Also why doping, diving and cheaing is actually good. by Bungacast
75 min listen
/20/ The Coup in Zimbabwe: In which we do the big picture of the coup. With deep context from David Moore & the political goings-on from Chipo Dendere. by Bungacast
83 min listen
/37/ The Ghosts of May '68 ft. Catherine Liu: In which we unpick the legacies of 1968 and all that: political fragmentation, the loss of authority, the cult of youth. by Bungacast
63 min listen
/30/ Italy: Country of the Future? ft. David Broder: In which we debate the upcoming Italian elections. Also corruption, bunga bunga, communism, migrants, fascism, & Europe. by Bungacast
98 min listen
/32/ Brazil Moves Right? ft. Sabrina Fernandes: In which we ask who killed Marielle Franco & discuss the shooting at Lula's caravan + Brazil's absent center by Bungacast
76 min listen
/34/ War Propaganda ft. Tara McCormack: In which we laugh at The Times' hatchet job with one of its targets & wonder what the West's endgame is in Syria by Bungacast
35 min listen
/36/ Portugal: The Soft Whip? ft. Catarina Príncipe: In which we debate whether Portugal really represents an alternative to austerity by Bungacast
69 min listen
/33/ Hungary's Illiberal Democracy ft. Tamas Gerocs: In which we unpick another Fidesz's victory and ask whether neoliberalism in an nationalist-authoritarian shell is the future by Bungacast
62 min listen
/68/ Big Money Talk ft. Doug Henwood: On Modern Monetary Theory. Doug Henwood joins us to discuss whether MMT offers a fiscal alternative for Left governments. What is monetary sovereignty and do all states have it? What are MMT's prospects for states as different as the USA, Nigeria or ... by Bungacast
52 min listen
/41/ The Colombian Exception ft. Pablo Medina Uribe: In which we discuss how the Right won this month's election -- in a country that has never seen the Left in power. Is Colombia an exception? The civil war there feels like part of the Cold War that forgot to end. We discuss the fragile peace, the mil... by Bungacast
47 min listen
/48/ Ultra-Politics in Brazil ft. Sabrina Fernandes: Special episode in partnership with Jacobin: Brazil election preview - democracy at stake. Who is Bolsonaro and why should Bolsonaro be understood as a neofascist? We discuss the #EleNão feminist resistance and the backdrop of 'antipetismo'. How has ... by Bungacast
64 min listen
/44/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome (N.O.B.S.): In which we lay the liberal establishment down on the shrink's sofa. It's a systematic analysis of liberal derangement: of the inability to accept, explain, or respond to the breakdown of the current order. Why can't the liberal establishment accept ... by Bungacast
62 min listen
/64/ These Vests Don't Yellow ft. Aurélie Dianara: On the Gilets Jaunes - again. They won’t go away. They won’t be subsumed by other forces or institutions and, after more than three months, they’re not exhausted yet. Have the Gilets Jaunes punctured France’s depression and drift? How has ‘respectabl... by Bungacast
44 min listen
/59/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 3 ft. Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski: On democratic planning. 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 man... by Bungacast
73 min listen
/46/ Exiting Capitalist Realism: The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time - the age of 'TINA' and the end of history - was acutely described by F... by Bungacast
51 min listen

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