Episode 44: Technofeudalism versus Total Capitalism (w/ Alex Hochuli)
This is a re-broadcast of Class Unity Transmissions Ep. 18: Technofeudalism versus Total Capitalism (w/ Alex Hochuli)
In this episode, we’re joined by writer and political analyst Alex Hochuli to discuss his recent essay in American Affairs, “Technofeudalism Versus Total Capitalism.” The convers…
EP. 840: WHY IS THE U.KL. IMPORTING U.S. POLITICS? ft. RALPH LEONARD
Read Ralph's Article in the Telegraph UK Here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/26/britain-obsession-with-ice-this-is-not-america-trump-blm-uk/
This is not America. This was the mantra that was said to progressive activists in Britain after their importation of American politics in the aft…
/538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
On the operating system of the 21st century.
Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, and why we should ask "what is Musk a symptom of?"
If Fordism characterised the mid-20th centur…
/543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn
On abolishing queer theory.
Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual.
What is queer theory and why should it be abolished?
What is the meaning behind the shift in terms: i…
/548/ Post-Legitimate Society ft. Will Charles
On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology.
Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself.
How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work?
Is any worker in this economy a 'true believer'?
Why isn't d…
Encounters: Lula's People with Alex Hochuli
This is the first in a two-part interview with the Brazilian political analyst and writer Alex Hochuli about the elections in Brazil and their aftermath.
We discuss the rise and morphology of Lula da Silva, from working class syndicalist to defender of the Brazilian state from its own worst excesse…
/556/ World Cup 2026: Stick to Politics ft. Many Guests
On politics and football.
Alex is joined by Karl Sharro, Juan David Rojas, Tim Abrahams, and Euan Marshall to pick over the stories of this World Cup.
If the World Cup is a branding exercise for the hosts, what exactly is the USA selling here? And Mexico? Canada?
Are conspiracy theories g…
/558/ Sewer Socialism, or Left in the Toilet? ft. Ross Barkan
On Zohran Mamdani.
Writer Ross Barkan, author of The Revolutionary on the New York mayor, talks to Ryan Zickgraf and Alex Hochuli about what Mamdani means for the Left.
How did Mamdani mute cultural progressivism to focus concentrate on rent, transport, childcare and food?
Is municipal so…
Brazilianization
Brazil was always the country of the future - prophesied as a new Eden since the sixteenth century, promised great things that never quite arrived. Alex Hochuli’s argument is that the future caught up to Brazil from the other direction. The wealthy world didn’t pull the laggards forward; it decline…
/565/ New Right Modernizers? ft. Orlando Lima [in Portuguese]
On Brazil and national reconstruction.
In our first ever episode in Portuguese, Alex speaks to Orlando Lima (editor of Valete, in-house magazine of new right-wing party, Missão) about the party and how Orlando came to be a "right-wing Zizekian".
Video with English subtitles and AI dubbing availab…
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