Alex Hochuli

São Paulo

Modernist | Host @BungaCast | Co-author, The End of the End of History: https://t.co/7QwvzX90dY | Editorial group, @damagemag

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Articles

The Techno-Populist Convergence

3 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Alex Hochuli

For more than a decade, we have been told that insurgent populists are challenging a complacent post-political technocratic establishment. Combatants on both sides testify to this polarization. Poland’s Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council and the country’s current prime minister, stated back in 2017 that “we must challenge the populists”—and he did so, defeating the right-wing Law and Justice Party in 2023.
Utopia brasileira - Alex Hochuli

Nov 6, 2024 | qoshe.com | Alex Hochuli

In 1856, Thomas Ewbank published Life in Brazil, an account of the Englishman’s six months spent in the country a decade earlier. In it, he argued that Catholicism as practised in Brazil and across Latin America constrained material progress.
Woke Nazis stole my lunch (the real treason of the intellectuals)

Aug 14, 2024 | alexhochuli.substack.com | Alex Hochuli

Few people are accused of treason today, rhetorically. At least not with respect to big collectivities like nation and class. But Julien Benda’s formulation, “la trahison des clercs”, has had enduring currency, as various groups and strata – clerks, intellectuals, experts – have been lambasted over the past century for not performing their proper function. In 1999, Edward Said rightly charged the intellectuals with treason over the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia.
Alex Hochuli on the End of History

Aug 1, 2024 | joshuacitarella.substack.com | Joshua Citarella |Alex 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.
What comes after wokeness?

Jul 31, 2024 | alexhochuli.substack.com | Alex Hochuli

The political Left and Right could, once upon a time, be distinguished by their pathologies. You could think of the Right as a cranky old man (stuck in his ways, paranoid about challenges to his authority, nostalgic, melancholic…) and the Left as an annoying adolescent (impatient, irresponsible, narcissistic, needlessly destructive…). But political ideologies and accompanying coordinates have become increasingly scrambled.
Should we stop thinking we are free?

Apr 3, 2024 | alexhochuli.substack.com | Alex Hochuli

“Don’t cry, Róger. You have to remember, they lived in a different time from us. We don’t have more chances to build a better life. We don’t have to live like that anymore.” So concludes one of the dozens of illuminating vignettes in anthropologist Roger Lancaster’s new book on class, gay identity, modernity and development – all told through the lens of his ethnography in Mexico.
Leftism is about identity-maintenance

Mar 14, 2024 | alexhochuli.substack.com | Alex Hochuli

Pablo Iglesias founded and, until 2021, was the figurehead of Spanish left-populist party Podemos. Spanish news reports today that he is opening a bar in Madrid’s hip Lavapiés neighbourhood. Garibaldi, it will be called, and it’ll serve left-branded cocktails and tapas, like a Fidel martini, a Che daquiri or enchiladas Viva Zapata.
Talk to me. Please.

Feb 24, 2024 | alexhochuli.substack.com | Alex Hochuli

In an act of pre-emptive satire – or, like the US invasion of Iraq, was it in fact preventative? – I posted the other day about the notion of a ‘Friendship Party’. It’s good I suppose that the existence of a loneliness crisis has entered public consciousness. But I’m fairly confident that the fact it has grabbed the attention of civil servants and policymakers is bad. To be libertarian about it, I don’t think the state can ‘resolve’ problems of subjectivity.
Omelets with Eggshells: On the Failure of the Millennial Left

Feb 20, 2024 | americanaffairsjournal.org | Alex Hochuli |Chris Cutrone |Vincent Bevins |Arthur Boriello

REVIEW ESSAYThe Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006–2022by Chris CutroneSublation, 2023, 293 pagesIf We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolutionby Vincent BevinsPublicAffairs, 2023, 352 pagesThe Populist Moment: The Left after the Great Recessionby Arthur Boriello and Anton JägerVerso, 2023, 224 pagesWe failed. We millennials missed a historic political opportunity in the long decade following the 2008 crash. “At least we tried,” we could say with some justice.
The world ended in 1973

Aug 22, 2023 | newstatesman.com | Alex Hochuli

The West is in decline. After more than a decade of populist insurrections followed by a global pandemic, and the return of war to eastern Europe, the idea is widespread, even accepted. These narratives suffuse the political right, which often yearns for lost values. Remember the 1950s: the consensus society, privatism, and traditional gender roles – an arcadian vision of things before they fell apart.