Coming up in September! (Patreon)

Hello, 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. 

ICYMI

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 doubleepisode 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.