Bungacast

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.

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.

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.

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.

On oligarchy and the end of reform.

Vedi Hadiz is back on to talk to Lee and Alex about Indonesia, amidst severe economic instability in the country.

What does the ascendancy of Prabowo Subianto represent?

What is going on with the erratic economic policymaking?

How is Prabowo bullying other oligarchs, and is it working?

What similarities are there between Prabowo and Putin, or even Trump?

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Links:

Oligarchy and the End of Reformasi in Indonesia: Power Reorganised, Vedi Hadiz & Richard Robison

Prabowo’s Clampdown on Indonesian Tycoons Fuels Capital Flight, Bloomberg

/391/ The Biggest Country No One Talks About ft. Vedi Hadiz