I study the changing forms of capitalism and authoritarianism - and the futures they make imaginable or impossible.
01 / Profile
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), Heidelberg University.
My research moves between sociology, political economy and Critical Theory. I am interested in how cutting-edge capitalist technologies reorganise labour, subjectivity and political imagination, and how these transformations streamline contemporary authoritarianism.
02 / Research
Critical Theory
+Mobilising the Frankfurt School as a living method for diagnosing domination, ideology and unrealised possibilities in the present.
Platform Capitalism
+Examining platforms not simply as technologies or firms, but as a social form reorganising labour, class, culture and everyday conduct.
Fascism & Authoritarianism
+Tracing how contemporary authoritarianism changes with capitalism, from mass integration to digitally organised atomisation, resentment and exclusion.
Apocalyptic Studies
+Studying the apocalypse as a political grammar through which societies organise fear, futurity, catastrophe and the unequal distribution of survival.
Neoliberalism
+Approaching neoliberalism as a political rationality and form of subjectivation that extends economic imperatives far beyond the market.
Political Economy
+Connecting economic forms to power, institutions and social experience, with particular attention to labour, monopoly and the Global South.
03 / Publications
Special issue
Constelaciones: Revista de Teoría Crítica, 17 · guest editor
Journal article
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 23, 205–222
Chinese translation (2026)
“平台资本主义与新自由主义论纲——基于资本主义体系（半）边缘地带的反思,” trans. Hengyu Ye and Zhenhua Cai, Foreign Theoretical Trends (《国外理论动态》), no. 3 (2026): 78–90.
Book chapter
Palgrave Macmillan
Edited volume
Routledge · co-edited with J. Fast, N. K. Mayberry & S. Simpson
Special issue
Cultural Dynamics, 34(3) · co-edited with M. González García & X. Martínez
Monograph
FFLCH / Universidade de São Paulo
04 / Teaching
PPGS · University of São Paulo
Graduate Program in Sociology, University of São Paulo · co-taught with Laurindo Dias Minhoto
Graduate Program in Sociology, University of São Paulo
Graduate Program in Sociology, University of São Paulo
Sociology, Anthropology and Political Economy at Faculdade Sudoeste Paulistano (2017), alongside undergraduate teaching assistance in Sociology II and Contemporary Sociological Thought at the University of São Paulo (2012–2017).
05 / Translations
German & English into Portuguese
Working paper · Portuguese translation with Bruna Della Torre · Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt
Book · Portuguese translation with Mario Antunes Marino · Politeia
Book · Portuguese translation · Politeia
Book · Portuguese translation and notes with Mario Antunes Marino · Politeia
Article · Portuguese translation · Plural, 24(1), 194–213
Article · Portuguese translation review · Crítica Marxista, 50, 259–274
06 / Public Engagement
Douglas Kellner Archive Project
Douglas Kellner Archive Project
Watch on YouTube© International Herbert Marcuse Society
Critical Theory beyond the seminar room
Military recruitment, consumer culture and the contemporary culture industry · Blog da Boitempo
The contemporary relevance of Herbert Marcuse · Blog da Boitempo
Platform capitalism, neoliberalism and labour · Apocalyptic Quarterly 3/24 · CAPAS
A reflection on studying Critical Theory · International Herbert Marcuse Society
Foucault, the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory · Blog do Labemus
Open courses · Portuguese
O homem unidimensional 60 anos depois · co-taught with Bruna Della Torre
Watch class
University of São Paulo · 12 hours
Course information
University of São Paulo · three-week course
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University of São Paulo · two-week course
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Escola Superior de Advocacia, OAB São Paulo · 4 hours
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07 / Curriculum vitae
2006—2011
2011—2013
2014—2018
2014—2015
2016
2019—2024
2024—present
2024—2025
2025—present
08 / Prizes & Awards
