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    /561/ Who Actually Rules Brazil? ft. Juliano Fiori

    29/09/2026 | 58 mins.
    On sovereignty and Brazil's election.

    Juliano Fiori, Alameda Institute director, talks to Alex about Lula versus (Flávio) Bolsonaro through the lens of internal and external threats to sovereignty.

    Is this an election about nothing? What is at stake?

    How did the Left reappropriate the defence of Brazilian interests?

    What's behind US interference in Brazil? Is it economic or political?

    How does the state reflect social fragmentation?

    Does Brazilian territory suffer from a deficit or an excess of sovereignty?

    For the full episode, subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast

    Links:

    Sovereigns of Brazil, Juliano Fiori, Alameda

    Soberanos de um Brasil fragmentado, Juliano Fiori, piauí

    At the UN, Brazil's Lula warns against foreign interference in upcoming election, Reuters
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    Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part four.

    22/09/2026 | 1h 17 mins.
    A docu-series from Bungacast.

    This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what the future of place is in the 21st century.

    In part four, we finish off by digging into New York itself to look at the great contradictions of modernism. We conclude by asking what the capital of the 21st century is, and who, if anyone, is planning it.

    This fourth episode features:

    Catherine Liu, Professor of Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine

    Damage summit participants

    Nick Burns, writer, editor

    Miodrag Mitrašinović, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture, The New School

    This documentary was made with the collaboration of our friends at Damage magazine.
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    Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part three.

    22/09/2026 | 1h 12 mins.
    A docu-series from Bungacast.

    This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what the future of place is in the 21st century.

    In part three, we explore the political economy of place: what produces the city, and what the city produces. We also ask whether place-based cultural scenes are still possible.

    This third episode features:

    Christie Offenbacher, psychologist

    Greg Gabrellas, psychiatrist

    Damage summit participants

    Pierre d'Alancaisez, critic and curator

    Matthew Gasda, playwright

    This documentary was made with the collaboration of our friends at Damage magazine.
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    Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part two.

    22/09/2026 | 1h 33 mins.
    A docu-series from Bungacast.

    This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what the future of place is in the 21st century.

    In part two, we explore "non-places", and ask whether their proliferation presents a challenge to the development of democratic politics. We also inquire into junk spaces and hyper-places. And ask what kind of politics and ideologies a digital life throws up.

    This second episode features:

    Amber Trotter, psychologist

    Damage Summit participants

    Alex Gendler, writer

    Joshua Citarella, artist, writer, host, Doomscroll

    This documentary was made with the collaboration of our friends at Damage magazine.
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    Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part one.

    22/09/2026 | 54 mins.
    A docu-series from Bungacast.

    This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what the future of place is in the 21st century. Over this multi-part documentary, we examine public space and non-places; privatisation, gentrification and digitalisation; the role of rent and of local scenes. The ultimate question is, is politics possible without a sense of place?

    This first episode features:

    Richard J Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures, University of Edinburgh

    Miodrag Mitrašinović, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture, The New School

    This documentary was made with the collaboration of our friends at Damage magazine.
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About Bungacast
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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