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Class UnityTransmissions Ep. 20: Philip Cunliffe | Is Globalization Over?Welcome to Episode 20 of Class Unity: Transmissions. For this episode, Nick is joined by Class Unity member Dave for a wide-ranging conversation with Philip Cunliffe on the question of the national interest. Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations at University College London, author of The National Interest: Politics After Globalization, and co-founder and contributing editor of Aufhebunga Bunga.
The discussion centers on Cunliffe’s argument that the “national interest”—long treated with suspicion on both the left and the libertarian right—has returned not as a coherent doctrine, but as a symptom of the collapse of globalizat...
2026-01-1900 min
Class UnityTransmissions Ep. 20: Philip Cunliffe | Is Globalization Over?Welcome to Episode 20 of Class Unity: Transmissions. For this episode, Nick is joined by Class Unity member Dave for a wide-ranging conversation with Philip Cunliffe on the question of the national interest. Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations at University College London, author of The National Interest: Politics After Globalization, and co-founder and contributing editor of Aufhebunga Bunga.
The discussion centers on Cunliffe’s argument that the “national interest”—long treated with suspicion on both the left and the libertarian right—has returned not as a coherent doctrine, but as a symptom of the collapse of globalizat...
2026-01-1900 min
The ChatterboxEpisode 44: Technofeudalism versus Total Capitalism (w/ Alex Hochuli) Podcast: Fully Automated (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 44: Technofeudalism versus Total Capitalism (w/ Alex Hochuli)Pub date: 2026-01-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis 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 conversation explores the rising popularity of the “technofeudalist” thesis — associated with thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, Cédric Durand, and Jodi De...
2026-01-181h 33
Fully AutomatedEpisode 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 conversation explores the rising popularity of the “technofeudalist” thesis — associated with thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, Cédric Durand, and Jodi Dean — and the claim that capitalism is undergoing a structural mutation into a new mode marked by digital rent extraction, platform dominance, and fragmented sovereignty.
We ask:
– What is technofeudalism, really?
– Has rent overtaken profit as capitalism’s core mechanism?
– Are Bi...
2026-01-021h 33Class UnityTransmissions 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 conversation explores the rising popularity of the “technofeudalist” thesis — associated with thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, Cédric Durand, and Jodi Dean — and the claim that capitalism is undergoing a structural mutation into a new mode marked by digital rent extraction, platform dominance, and fragmented sovereignty.
We ask:
– What is technofeudalism, really?
– Has rent overtaken profit as capitalism’s core mechanism?
– Are Big Tech and asset managers forming a new feu...
2025-09-241h 33Class UnityTransmissions 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 conversation explores the rising popularity of the “technofeudalist” thesis — associated with thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, Cédric Durand, and Jodi Dean — and the claim that capitalism is undergoing a structural mutation into a new mode marked by digital rent extraction, platform dominance, and fragmented sovereignty.
We ask:
– What is technofeudalism, really?
– Has rent overtaken profit as capitalism’s core mechanism?
– Are Big Tech and asset managers forming a new feu...
2025-09-241h 33
Bungacast/507/ Put 'General Will' in Charge ft. Philip CunliffeOn The National Interest.
Aufhebunga Bunga co-founder and contributing editor Phil Cunliffe joins us to talk about his new book about politics after the age of globalisation. We ask questions about his book – and then put him on trial for wrongthink.
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Who is the 'national interest' good for? Is it a domestic or a foreign policy concern?
Why did the 'national interest' disappear from our political vocabulary?
Is the national interest an abstraction anyone can rhetorically claim? Is that not dangerous?
What happens if...
2025-08-191h 31Bungacast/500/ Disrupt, Decline, DecayWe celebrate 500 episodes of Aufhebunga Bunga with a cold, hard look at the decay around us.
Alex and George plus contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex Gourevitch wrangle with four principal questions:
What does it mean to say our era is one of decay or decline?
How does this relate to the non-death of neoliberalism – its intellectual destitution, its practical weakening, but also its mutation and perpetuation?
How does neoliberal decay relate to the decline of a unipolar world under total US hegemony, and the decline of the liberal globalist order?...
2025-07-221h 24
Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella[PREVIEW] Alex Hochuli on the End of HistoryAlex Hochuli is a co-host of the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast and a co-author of "The End of the End of History: Politics in the 21st Century". He joins me to discuss universalisms, organization and the difficult way forward.Follow:https://x.com/bungacasthttps://x.com/Alex__1789
2024-08-0105 min
Doomscroll with Joshua CitarellaAlex Hochuli on the End of HistoryAlex Hochuli is a co-host of the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast and a co-author of "The End of the End of History: Politics in the 21st Century". He joins me to discuss universalisms, organization and the difficult way forward.
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2024-08-0153 min
ChannelAlex Hochuli on the End of HistoryAlex Hochuli is a co-host of the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast and a co-author of "The End of the End of History: Politics in the 21st Century". He joins me to discuss universalisms, organization and the difficult way forward.Follow:https://x.com/bungacasthttps://x.com/Alex__1789
2024-07-3053 min
Disintegrator2. Free Labor, Hidden Labor (w/ Tiziana Terranova)Tiziana Terranova has provided all of us with one of the sharpest critical accounts of the modern internet. In this episode, Tiziana, Roberto, and Marek discuss the labor dynamics at play in the contemporary digital economy -- from changes in the social status of creative work, the hidden labor underpinning the mechanics of the virtual world, and the material means by which AI resists pushes for decentralization.We reference a few of Tiziana’s texts in the interview, which build foundational scaffolding for theories of what it means to live within networks: Free Labor: Producing Culture of th...
2023-11-2246 min
New Work in Digital HumanitiesAufhebunga Bunga and Global PoliticsAufhebunga Bunga is the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. In this episode, Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, and Philip Cunliffe talk about their work as academics and political commentators. Their podcast, also known as Bunga Cast, is a funny and fascinating examination of populist and illiberal developments around the world.
Alex Hochuli
George Hoare
Philip Cunliffe
Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by b...
2022-11-0459 min
New Books in World AffairsAufhebunga Bunga and Global PoliticsAufhebunga Bunga is the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. In this episode, Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, and Philip Cunliffe talk about their work as academics and political commentators. Their podcast, also known as Bunga Cast, is a funny and fascinating examination of populist and illiberal developments around the world.
Alex Hochuli
George Hoare
Philip Cunliffe
Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by b...
2022-11-041h 03
New Books in Politics and PolemicsAufhebunga Bunga and Global PoliticsAufhebunga Bunga is the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. In this episode, Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, and Philip Cunliffe talk about their work as academics and political commentators. Their podcast, also known as Bunga Cast, is a funny and fascinating examination of populist and illiberal developments around the world.
Alex Hochuli
George Hoare
Philip Cunliffe
Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by b...
2022-11-041h 03
SPSEp 40: On Chappelle & The End of the End of HistoryFor this episode of SPS, Sophia and Pamela take up Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special, "The Closer," and the blowback following its release. For the main segment, Sophia catches up with the makers behind the Aufhebunga Bunga pod, Alex Hochuli and George Hoare, to discuss their new book, The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century. She asks about their characterization of "anti-politics," how they understood the Trump & Brexit moment, and the importance of Hegel for the Left today. Hochuli is a writer and translator living in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Hoare is a researcher and...
2021-10-281h 03
Marx Engels Institute*Preview* "Postmodern" NationalismsFull episode available to Patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/postmodern-57364680
We use the sub-nationalisms of Quebec and Scotland to understand nationalism theory and nation-building in the postmodern era. We contend that nationalisms in our current postmodern period are predominantly led by the petite bourgeoisie, in contrast to the ones of the past led by the bourgeoisie.
We ask: Can a nation-building projects led by the petite bourgeoisie be successful? What value do they have to an internationalist socialist project?
Mentioned in the show:
Imagined Communities, book by Benedict Anderson
2021-10-1308 min
Marx Engels InstituteThe Great Gramscian Moments of Brexit and COVID w/ George HoareWe sat down with George Hoare, co-host of the Aufhebunga bunga podcast, to look at Brexit and COVID-19 using Gramsci's concepts of historic bloc and hegemony as guides.
Check out George's first book: An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy
And his latest book: The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Mentioned in the show: The Full Brexit Blog
2021-10-011h 17BungacastOK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 2The second in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.
In this episode, we look at the emergence of 'youth' as political concept in the age following the French Revolution, and its shifting meanings. How important was generational consciousness in the Young Italy movement and its imitators in the 19th century, and how should we understand the so-called 'Lost Generation' of 1914?
Guests include:
Niall Whelahan, Chancellor’s Fellow in History, Strathclyde University
Original music by: Jonny Mundey
Additional music:
Leimoti / Don't Leave It Here / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com...
2021-09-2829 minBungacastOK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 1The first in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.
In this episode, we look at the current, vexed discourse around generations, and analyse competing theories on how to understand generational cleavages.
Guests include:
Felix Krawatzek, political scientist at the Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin
Jennie Bristow, sociologist at Canterbury Christ Church University
Joshua Glenn, semiotician, author, and publisher of HiLoBrow
Original music by: Jonny Mundey
Additional music:
Peter Kuli / OK Boomer / courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group, Inc.
Liru / For the...
2021-09-2138 min
ex.haustEpisode 56: This Film Is Dedicated to the Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan ft. Phil CunliffeEmmet talks with author and cohost of Aufhebunga Bunga Phil Cunliffe about the bungled evac of Kabul, the Afghanistan War's aimlessness, historical amnesia, and more!
The Fall of an American Empire by Phill Cunliffe
Whatever Happened to the Good War? by Phil Cunliffe
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Closing Song: Dig It A Hole by The U-Men
2021-09-1558 min
New Books in European PoliticsAlex Hochuli et al., "The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century" (Zero Books, 2021)We live in strange times. Politics around the world seem to be transforming into something new and often frightening. But this process has a history. In 1989, the bi-polar certainties of the Cold War gave way to a neo-liberal consensus, what Francis Fukuyama termed “the End of History”. Yet with BREXIT and Trump in 2016, the End of History seemed to be coming to an end itself. The current COVID crisis has only accelerated this process. To make sense of this Gramscian interregnum and its great variety of morbid symptoms, Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, and Philip Cunliffe started the Aufhebunga Bunga podcas...
2021-09-031h 07
New Books in Diplomatic HistoryAlex Hochuli et al., "The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century" (Zero Books, 2021)We live in strange times. Politics around the world seem to be transforming into something new and often frightening. But this process has a history. In 1989, the bi-polar certainties of the Cold War gave way to a neo-liberal consensus, what Francis Fukuyama termed “the End of History”. Yet with BREXIT and Trump in 2016, the End of History seemed to be coming to an end itself. The current COVID crisis has only accelerated this process. To make sense of this Gramscian interregnum and its great variety of morbid symptoms, Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, and Philip Cunliffe started the Aufhebunga Bunga podcas...
2021-09-031h 09
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast33 - The End of the End of History feat. Philip Cunliffe and George HoareI talk to Phillip Cunliffe and George Hoare about their new book The End of the End of History. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama predicted a boring eternity of liberal capitalism and for nearly 30 years, it looked like he might be right. We had Clinton and Blair. Globalization and apathy. Kurt Cobain. According to my guests, the end of History wasn’t just about politics, it was a whole vibe. But since 2016, things have started happening that don't quite fit the pattern and the pundits are losing their minds. Do Brexit, Trump, and the new politicization signify the e...
2021-08-301h 05
Outsider TheoryFukuyama avec Berlusconi with Philip CunliffePhil Cunliffe, co-host of Aufhebunga Bunga and co-author of The End of the End of History, joins Outsider Theory to discuss the shifting co-ordinates of the post-Fukuyamaite world, the rise and fall of left populism, post-politics and anti-politics, the typology of the political outsider, the exemplary career of Silvio Berlusconi, and much more.
The End of the End of History: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-end-history
Aufhebunga Bunga: https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/
2021-07-021h 34
Apans anatomiRobotar som (inte) jobbarTar maskinerna våra jobb? I samhällsdebatten har det blivit ett faktum att jobben försvinner på grund av automatiseringen. Men nu kommer kritiken. Aaron Benanav och Jason E Smith hävdar i sina böcker att vi lever i en produktivitetsparadox: trots automatiseringen ökar inte produktiviteten i produktionen. Avindustrialiseringen och jobben som försvinner gör det av andra skäl än ny teknik. Hur förändrar det en radikal samhällsstrategi för att ge ett trovärdigt framtidsprojekt? Vad innebär det för accelerationismen, den helautomatiska lyxkommunismen, ekomodernismen, teknopopulismen och Green new deal-politiken som vänstern lyft fram...
2021-06-2056 min
TRUE ANON TRUTH FEEDEpisode 162: The End of the End of History??? (teaser)To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod.
Alex Hochuli from the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast (aufhebungabunga.podbean.com) joins us to discuss the Brazilianization of the world (americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world), the Bolsonaro admin's COVID response, and his forthcoming book "The End of the End of History" (johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-end-history).
2021-05-3005 min
TRUE ANON TRUTH FEEDEpisode 162: The End of the End of History???Alex Hochuli from the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast joins us to discuss the Brazilianization of the world, the Bolsonaro admin's COVID response, and his forthcoming book "The End of the End of History."
2021-05-3000 min
TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED[PREVIEW] Episode 162: The End of the End of History???Alex Hochuli from the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast joins us to discuss the Brazilianization of the world, the Bolsonaro admin's COVID response, and his forthcoming book "The End of the End of History."
2021-05-3005 min
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: The End of the End of History w/ Alex HochuliEvery Wednesday at 6 PM ET, The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from May 26, 2021, with Paul Prescod and Jen Pan hosting.
Alex Hochuli, co-host of the podcast Aufhebunga Bunga and co-author of the book The End of the End of History, joins us to discuss "Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome" and the profound strangeness of politics after the 2008 financial crash.
Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10...
2021-05-281h 30
New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesPhilip Cunliffe, "Lenin Lives!: Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017" (Zero Books, 2017)While a number of books came out on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, few seriously considered how the 20th century would have unfolded differently if the violent forces of counter-revolution and White terror had not crushed the Marxist dreams of a new future. What if the revolution had successfully spread to Western Europe and the United States of America? What would have happened if Rosa Luxemburg was not murdered by Freikorps thugs? What if the colonial empires had turned into non-racist mechanisms for egalitarian global development? As historians, we are not supposed to ask these “what if” questions, but o...
2021-04-2257 min
Conter RadioCat & David Go on their Favourite Podcast (AufheBungaBunga)Cat and David talk about Scottish politics to a global audience at the end of the End of History.
See more about AufheBunga Bunga here: https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/
2021-03-231h 28
Space CommuneEp 008 The Management of Populist Disillusionment (feat. George Hoare)On this episode we talk to George Hoare of the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast about his latest article for Damage Magazine, "Moral Minoritarianism from the Ashes of Left Populism". Topics covered include: BLM outside of the US, "deliberative democracy" & "citizen's assemblies", localism and more!
Read George's article: https://damagemag.com/2021/01/13/moral-minoritarianism-from-the-ashes-of-left-populism/
Aufhebunga Bunga Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/bungacast
Book: The End of the End of History tinyurl.com/BungaBook
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2021-01-291h 41
Impressions of America: History PodcastThe New Democrats with Alex HochuliSimon, Tobi and Vaughn are joined by Alex Hochuli from the Aufhebunga Bunga Podcast to discuss the New Democrats and their rise in the late 80s and early 90s. We also chat with Alex about his new book The End of the End of History. Also, Vaughn gets to talk about her favourite subject: Ross Perot.
2021-01-231h 22
Radical Thoughts PodcastThe Return of The Political (Part 2)This is the second half of our conversation on Chantal Mouffe's The Return of The Political. We delve further into the trap of idealism, NGO-styled radicalism, and the influence of populism on real-life movements like Podemos and Britain's New Labour.Our next bonus episode will discuss Left Populism in theory and practice with special guest Anton Jäger. If you want to hear the discussion, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughtsThe next book for discussion is The Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida.You can check out the Aufhebunga B...
2020-08-0550 min
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelCosmopolitan Dystopia w/ Philip Cunliffe
On this edition of Parallax Views, modern wars in which the U.S. and Western powers invade nations like Iraq and Afghanistan are often waged under the pretext of being necessary "humanitarian interventions". Pro-peace activists and critics of U.S. foreign policy have long argued, however, that claims of "humanitarian intervention" are cover for more sinister motivations From this perspective, U.S. wars are fought for control of resources or for strategic reasons related to the maintenance of Western powers on the geopolitical "Grand Chessboard".
For example, many antiwar activists who ma...
2020-07-291h 18
requires improvement006// Where do we go from here? Post-election debriefRequires Improvement has returned for 2020 with hosts Lauren, Nick, Charlie and Lee as they take stock of the situation following the UK General Election of 2019. Some personal reflections on this important event are followed by requires improvement insights into school funding, sexism in vintage BBC history clips, the poor showing from the NASUWT in the recent GE and a focus on one particular newly elected Tory MP who was a school rep for the aforementioned union. The episode concludes with a reflection on what we can do going forwards (hint: build the union!)
References to articles/podcasts mentioned in this...
2020-01-301h 00
Apans anatomiHelautomatisk lyxkommunismLyx åt alla! Går det verkligen i klimatkrisen? Eller är det enda vägen vi kan skapa ett majoritetsstöd för en klimatomställning, att se hur vi kan få våra liv bättre, friare och jobba mindre. Aaron Bastanis bok om lyxpopulism har nu kommit på svenska. Per Björklund, som översatt och gett ut boken, medverkar i detta avsnitt och diskuterar hur vi kan ta kampen om den teknologiska utvecklingen.
Läs/lyssna mer:
Aron Etzler: Maskinerna kommer att göra oss fria
https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/bokrecensioner/a/dOjxWj/maskinerna-kommer-att-gora-oss-fria
Radio åt alla: Aaron Bastani oc...
2019-11-091h 04
Chapo Trap HouseBonus: Brazil feat. Ben Fogel (10/26/18)Amber talks to author and editor Ben Fogel about Brazil's current political crisis, its contemporary political history, and how the left should approach "anti-corruption".
Against Anti-Corruption: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/corruption-bolsonaro-pt-populism-democracy-development
Brazil's Never-Ending Crisis: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol2/no2/brazils-never-ending-crisis
Aufhebunga Bunga Podcast: https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/e/49-kids-confessions-ft-amber-alee-frost/
2018-10-2600 minFully AutomatedEpisode 11 (Part 2): ‘”Situationism” and the 50th Anniversary of May ’68,’ with Charlie Umland and Jim CalderToday, we are releasing Part 2 of our conversation with Jim Calder and Charlie Umland, on Situationism. In the last episode, we addressed some of the basic concepts and arguments of the Situationists, focusing largely on their critique of capitalist modernity. In today’s episode, we turn to question of strategy, and the way the approach of the Situationists to political engagement.
We think this is a timely episode — coming to you as it is, right in the middle of the 50th anniversary of the student revolt in Paris, of May 1968 — an event with which the situationists are often associated, sometimes even b...
2018-05-171h 11