Domination Without Hegemony? w/ Juliano Fiori

Domination Without Hegemony? w/ Juliano Fiori

From Macrodose by Planet B Productions

May 7, 2026 · 54 min

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Juliano Fiori discusses the concept of sustained disorder in global politics and critiques the notion of US hegemony as a stabilizing force.

Event Tickets: Political Economy in a Time of Monsters (May 12th) Welcome back to After Order - a series from Macrodose and the Alameda institute exploring power, sovereignty, and crisis in today’s unstable world. This week, James is joined by Juliano Fiori, Director at Alameda, to look back at the series so far, and discuss its core premise: that we’re not living through what Antonio Gramsci called an “interregnum” - a moment where the old world is dying and the new struggles to be born. Instead, that our world is now one of sustained disorder . In his own writing, Juliano takes this one step further, arguing that the very notion of order as we’ve come to understand it is tied to the system of US hegemony that has dominated global politics since the end of the second world war. For Juliano this “order” is not only conceptual, but material. Sustained first by the unparalleled industrial base of American capitalism, and then by its transformation into the hub of global trade and finance - secured at every turn through military might. He argues that, in losing sight of this, progressives too often take this exception for granted, and with it the belief that its decline will…

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Host: James

Guest: Juliano Fiori

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Organizations: Alameda, US, American capitalism

Books & works: After Order, Political Economy in a Time of Monsters

Places: Venezuela

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