On energy, the material basis for all our politics?
Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from the 1956 Suez Crisis to the Fracking Revolution of today. How does US energy independence help explain shifting politics in Europe and the Middle East?
Plus, did the End of History stay afloat on a sea of cheap oil?
Part 2 of the interview, plus our After Party, is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/251-oil-disorder-64394535
Readings:
Excerpt: /307/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Dec 2022)
Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism
/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)
Excerpt: /302/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Nov 2022)
Excerpt: /301/ Reading Club: Neo-Feudalism
/300/ Bunga at the End of the World
/299/ Micropower & Transcendence in Brazil (Bungazão 2022) ft. Miguel Lago
/298/ Working For Freedom ft. Alex Gourevitch
/297/ Bungazão 2022 (Clean & Godly) ft. Benjamin Fogel
Excerpt: /296/ Last-Gasp Neoliberalism (Trussonomics)
Excerpt: /295/ Aufhebonus Bonus: October
Excerpt: /294/ Reading Club: Conspiracy Theory
Excerpt: /293/ Goodbye 20th Century (RIP Gorby)
/292/ Bungazão 2022: Unrealistic Pragmatism, ft. Unbridled Possibility Collective
/291/ The Right Timeline ft. Mattia Salvia
/290/ Cassoulet of Disruption ft. Nathan Sperber
Excerpt: /289/ Aufhebonus Bonus (September)
Excerpt: /288/ Feudal Limpets (Bunga Goes Royal)
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