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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.

  1. HACE 4 DÍAS

    /543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn

    On abolishing queer theory. Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. What is queer theory and why should it be abolished? What is the meaning behind the shift in terms: invert, to homosexual, to gay, to queer? How does queer theory politicise sex and why is this bad? Do our libidos care about social inclusion? Can they? Is identity okay but identity politics bad? For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Links: Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual, Aman Namaman and Pierre d’Alancaisez (eds.), Verdurin, 2025

    30 min

  2. 31 MAR

    /542/ Letters to the Editors: March 2026

    We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month. Key issues: The difference between radical conservatism and the far right Racism in class society in decomposition Tech bro übermenschen (or just Uber men) Who is doing the work of justifying this order? And Ursula, the villainous Cecaelian sea witch, about whom songs must be sung For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Links: To Keep and Bear Arms, Garry Wills, The New York Review David Graeber vs. Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go? /495/ Heritage America vs the World? ft. James Pogue

    29 min

  3. 24 MAR

    /541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong

    On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains. Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the substack On The Seams, talks to Alex and George about organising workers in locations of corporate vulnerability. We also preview the forthcoming print issue of Damage, Trains, by discussing modernity and its avatars, and development and de-development in Brazil. Why target Amazon above all else? What are the "seams" and why are they important? Can labour still "go after the big targets"? Do these still exist given the dispersion of production and distribution? How much public appetite is there for blockages at pain points? Links: On the Seams, Substack The Labor Movement Must Go All In on Organizing Amazon, Benjamin Y Fong, Jacobin Organizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts, Benjamin Y Fong, New Labor Forum The Apotheosis of Point of Sale Data, Benjamin Y Fong, Phenomenal World

    1 h 9 min

  4. 17 MAR

    /540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor

    On "non-hegemony" and world disorder. Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral institutions but whose contents have been hollowed out. What is "multilateralism"? Why is it an important concept to capture the US-led order that is now falling apart? If multilateralism was always in crisis, what is new today? Is the emerging (dis)order multipolar or apolar? What's the difference? Is multilateralism the historic exception that we wrongly take to be the norm? Why is there no going back to the post-1945 – or post-1991 – order? What are the prospects for a new hegemonic order? Isn’t prolonged chaos and decay more likely?  The full episode is for subscribers. Join at patreon.com/bungacast Links: Non-Hegemony, Tom Chodor, Jack Taggart and Ilias Alami, Phenomenal World /377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor /357/ Lucky, Meaty Nations ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor

    42 min

  5. 13 MAR

    /539/ Reading Club: Where's Our Flying Cars?

    On the slowing rate of technological progress. Alex, George and contributing editor (and science writer) Leigh Phillips discuss David Graeber's 2012 essay, Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit. This builds on two of this year's themes: state capitalism (how planning and growth – or their absence – intersect with technology) and the pre-political (how technology shapes •⁠  ⁠Were we right to expect jetpacks? And are we looking in the right place for technological advances today? •⁠  ⁠⁠Has technical progress actually slowed in the way Graeber says?  •⁠  ⁠⁠Are the explanations he gives for slowdown correct? •⁠  ⁠⁠What political tasks does this reality impose on us? •⁠  ⁠⁠What is the role of geopolitics and war in the rate of technological development? Links: Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit, David Graeber, The Baffler Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck, Patrick Collison & Michael Nielsen, The Atlantic /59/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 3 ft. Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski Progress is in the balance between innovation and implementation, Phil Bell, LSE Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (On Robert C. Allen) Engels’s Second Theory: Technology, Warfare and the Growth of the State

    29 min

  6. 10 MAR

    /538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff

    On the operating system of the 21st century. Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, and why we should ask "what is Musk a symptom of?" If Fordism characterised the mid-20th century, are our times those of Muskism? What are the touchstones of Muskism that the authors identify: fortress futurism, financial fabulism, state symbiosis? Who is the real Musk, that of vehicles, energy, infrastructure, or that of the post-industrial stuff of social media, finance, AI? What does Muskism promise people? How does it legitimise itself – if at all? Is the state actually dependent on Musk, or is Musk dependent on the state? How much of Musk's right-wing turn is necessary to Muskism, and how much is contingent? Is the racial component central? Links: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff, Harper Collins /57/ Übermenschen of Capital Pt. 1 ft. Alex Gourevitch

    1 h 15 min

  7. 27 FEB

    /537/ Letters to the Editors: Feb 2026

    We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month or so. Key issues this month are: What are the wrongs of the postmodern right – aand left? Will the civilisational paradigm become hegemonic? Is Trump's foreign policy techno-populist? Whether, and how, to protest anti-immigration policing To defend or to smash the professions? For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast

    32 min

  8. 24 FEB

    /536/ Can Racism Be Overcome Within Capitalism? ft. Paul Gomberg

    On anti-racism, communism, and philosophy. Alex Gourevitch talks to political philosopher Paul Gomberg about his original and deep Marxist arguments for what makes racism wrong, why racism cannot be eradicated without overcoming capitalism, and the limits of many contemporary anti-racist arguments. What does it mean to "alienate" race? What is the harm in racism? How does it harm everyone, not just its obvious victims? Why does Gomberg argue that can racism cannot be overcome in capitalist society? Has official racism been replaced by official anti-racism in the neoliberal era? What does it mean to understand anti-racism as communism? How did Gomberg's communist militancy impact his philosophy? For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Links: Anti-Racism as Communism, Paul Gomberg, Bloomsbury How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice, Paul Gomberg, Blackwell

    51 min
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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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