The New Class Analysis: Perspectives from the Academy and Beyond with Catherine Liu, George Hoare and Alex Hochuli
Department: Humanities Center
Date and Time: December 9, 2021 | 11:00 AM-12:30 PMEvent Location: Zoom
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UCI Professor Catherine Liu, NGO worker George Hoare, and Journalist Alex Hochuli debate the possibilities and limitations of the new class analysis. Drawing on a range of sources and examples, they put Catherine's recent missive against the professional-managerial class, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the PMC, in conservation with Alex and George's co-authored panoramic survey of global politics, The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century, with a particular focus on the political role of the middle classes in contemporary capitalism.
George Hoare is a writer and broadcaster based in London, where he works for a mental health NGO. He, along with Philip Cunliffe and Alex Hochuli host Bungacast. His books include An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci (Bloomsbury, 2016; with Nathan Sperber).
Alex Hochuli is also a co-host of Bungacast, translator, journalist and media consultant. He is a regular contributor to Damage Magazine and Jacobin and is co-author of The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century.
Dr. Catherine Liu is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine and author, most recently of Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. She is at work on a book on the theoretical historical configuration of trauma and the public sphere in the post-68 world.
