Coming up in September!
Added 2023-08-29 21:26:20 +0000 UTCHello, denizens of Bungaworld.
Here's what's coming up over the next month...
- The internet is SHIT. How do we reverse ENSHITTIFICATION? Cory Doctorow suggests some ways to take on big tech monopolies.
- Humanitarian politics has made abject victims out of all of us. Juliano Fiori explains what post-humanitarinism is, and how to create a politics out of crisis.
- The self-cucking state: how bringing in the consultants has hollowed-out state capacity and diminished democratic accountability.
- They don't make the bourgeoisie like they used to. But we sure do like satirising them. We take on a Buñuel classic.
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Big August on Bunga:
- Left-wing terrorism in the 1970s - radicalism or nihilism? We discussed The Baader Meinhof Complex.
- Private coercion in the workplace and marketplace: Compact Magazine editor Sohrab Ahmari told us about his new book.
- Swimming in the End of History? We did a double episode on Australia and New Zealand with Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor.
- We did drugs - in moderation. Benjamin Fong told us how to fight the drug war, and the drug-pushers.
- US politics is stuck and the old traditions just hold us down. Benjamin Studebaker told us how politics weigh on the brains of the living.
- We finished off our reading of Jurgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis by asking what a politics of truth would look like. We're back with a final episode, carrying out wider explorations of legitimacy and motivation, in September.
Bunga Elsewhere:
- Alex said the world ended in 1973, but it's taken us 50 years to realise. "They're all lost decades," he argued in The New Statesman
- Faced with yet another "South American Trump", Alex said SHUT UP, in Unherd. Javier Milei is not even an anti-globalist: his ultra-libertarian policies promise more dependency.
