Aléxia Bretas
Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). She has a master´s degree and a doctorate in Philosophy from University of São Paulo, a postdoctoral degree in Literary Theory from UNICAMP and research stays at Freie Universität Berlin (2009) and Université Paris 8 (2013). She is the author of the books The Constellation of the Dream in Walter Benjamin (Humanitas, 2008), From the Artist’s Novel to the Permanence of Art: Marcuse and the Aporias of Aesthetical Modernity (Annablume, 2013) and Phantasmagoria of Modernity (Ed. Unifesp, 2017). She is a member of the Philosophy and Gender Work Group of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Philosophy (ANPOF), of the Brazilian Network of Women Philosophers, of the Esperança Garcia Gender Studies Center and of the Nexos Network: critical theory and interdisciplinary research.
More information: https://www.alexiabretas.com/
Arnold L. Farr
Professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky. His research interests are German idealism, Critical Theory, Marxism, Africana philosophy, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and liberation philosophy. He is coeditor and coauthor of Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture (2002) and author of Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies (2009). He is co-editor of Critical Refusals: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements a double special issue of the Radical Philosophy Review (2013). He is the founder and serves on the board of the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
Carlos Gómez Camarena
He maintains a psychoanalytical practice in Mexico City. Full time professor and researcher at Communication Department (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City). Member of the Forums of the Lacanian Field in Mexico. He holds a PhD in psychoanalysis and psychopathology (Université Sorbonne Paris Cité). His research interests are Antiphilosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy and the clinical and theoretical uses of mathematics and poetry in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He was part of the translator team of Barbara Cassin’s Dictionary of Untranslatables. Co-editor of Marx-Lacan Vocabulary ,published in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian versions.
Gabriel Ramponi
He is graduated in International Relations in Facamp, mastered in Philosophy in Unifesp and currently is associate researcher for the research group Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South , allied to UFABC.
Henrique Piccinato Xavier
He is degree at Bachelor in Visual Arts (Multimídia) from the Universidade de São Paulo (2003), and holds a master and doctorate degrees at Philosophy from the Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in Philosophy, acting on the following subjects: Modern Philosophy, Audiovisual Essay, Critique of Brazilian Art, Politics, Psychoanalysis.
Imaculada Kangussu
Professor of philosophy at Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in Brazil. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Arts and Science at New York University with a scholarship from Coordenação e Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). She is a member of the art and knowledge research group at Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq). She works primarily in the areas of Critical Theory, aesthetics, and philosophy of art. She has published articles in numerous books and journals, including Theoria Aesthetica (2005), The Comic and the Tragic (2008), Aesthetic Displacement (2008), and Fantasia and Criticism (2012). Her books include Sobre Eros [About Eros] (2007), Leis da Liberdade [Laws of Freedom] (2008), and A Fantasia e as Fantasias [Phantasy and Phantasies] (2020). Her current research is on the juncture between phantasy and reality. She serves on the board of the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
Marília Mello Pisani
Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Sciences and Humanities at UFABC, and a scholar of Herbert Marcuse’s work since 1999, with a master’s thesis and a doctoral dissertation on his thought. She is currently working on the organization of the forthcoming volume on Marcuse and ecology, the second volume of the collection “Grande Recusa” [Great Refusal] (Politeia, 2023).
Nadia Bou Ali
Assistant Professor at the Civilization Studies Program at the American University of Beirut. She is co-editor of Lacan contra Foucault, subjectity, sex, and politics (2018), and author of Hall of Mirrors: psychoanalysis and the love of Arabic (2020). Her research interests revolve around: modern Arabic intellectual history, Critical Theory, and Psychoanalysis.
Paulo Eduardo Arantes
Retired professor from the Philosophy Department of the University of São Paulo. Under the guidance of Jean-Toussaint Desanti, Paulo defended his thesis on the problem of time in Hegel, at the University of Paris, Nanterre campus, in June 1973. He retook his post in the Department in August 1973 and remained there until his retirement in 1998. During this period, he was for two years Coordinator of the Post-graduation program and Director of Discourse Magazine, from 1976 to 1981. After retirement, while continuing his work of thesis advising and research supervision, Paulo gradually took on new tasks at the intersection of intellectual and political life. Paulo’s intellectual path goes from the Hegelian left to the Brazilian critical tradition, with special emphasis on the rediscovery of the problem of Philosophy in Brazil, going from there to the approach of the ideological and geopolitical world scene, always through the prism of our peripheral condition. More information: https://sentimentodadialetica.org/dialetica/index
Peter-Erwin Jansen
Philosopher and sociologist, studied with Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth in Frankfurt. He currently teaches philosophy, social sciences, history of social movements, social justice, and ethics at the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz, Germany. He is editor of unpublished texts by Herbert Marcuse and Leo Löwenthal. Six volumes of Marcuse and two volumes of Löwenthal have been published, all by the German publishing house zu Klampen!. He serves on the board of the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
Robespierre de Oliveira
PhD (Universidade de São Paulo, 2001) with a thesis on Marcuse Critical Theory and Philosophy. He was a post-doctoral visiting professor at CUNY (2014-2015). He has chapters published in books, translations of Herbert Marcuse in Portuguese (including One-Dimensional Man) and a book O papel da filosofia na teoria crítica de Herbert Marcuse (The Role of Philosophy in Marcuse’s Critical Theory). He continues to dedicate his research to Marcuse and other first-generation members of the Frankfurt School. He is a Professor of Philosophy (Under-graduation and Graduation) at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM) Brazil. He is a member of the International Herbert Marcuse Society and participate of the Grupo de Pesquisa Teoria Crítica e Educação (Group of Research Critical Theory and Education).
Roger Montemor
He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (2014) and a Master’s in Philosophy from the Federal University of ABC (2020), with the dissertation entitled: The critique of modern society in the “Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx”, under the orientation of Prof. doctor Silvio Carneiro. He is a collaborator of the Research Project Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Federal University of ABC (2022), where he researches the work of Roberto Schwarz, also under the orientation of Prof. Silvio Carneiro.
Rose Gurski
Psychologist and psychoanalyst. Professor at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology of the Institute of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She holds a Master’s degree in Developmental Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1997) and a PhD in Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2008). She specializes in developmental problems in childhood and adolescence at the Lydia Coriat Center in Porto Alegre. She is a member of the Psychoanalytic Association of Porto Alegre. She was a founding member and director of the Maud Mannoni Clinic – treatment, teaching and research of Developmental Problems in Childhood and Adolescence, from 1998 to 2010, in the city of Porto Alegre. She is one of the founders of NEPEIA (Núcleo de Estudo, Pesquisa e Extensão sobre Infância e Adolescência – Study, Research and Extension Center on Childhood and Adolescence) at UFRGS Psychology Institute. She is also a member of the Núcleo de Estudos em Mídia, Educação e Subjetividade (NEMES) and of the Núcleo de Psicanálise, Educação e Cultura (NUPPEC). Author of the book Três Ensaios sobre Juventude e Violência [ Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Federal University of ABC (2022), where he researches the work of Roberto Schwarz, also under the orientation of Prof. Silvio Carneiro.
Sami Khatib
Interim professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and a founding member of the Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). His publications include a co-editorship of the volume “Critique: The Stakes of Form” (Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2020) and authorship of the book “’Teleologie ohne Endzweck’: Walter Benjamins Ent-stellung des Messianischen” [“Teleology without End.” Walter Benjamin’s Dislocation of the Messianic], (Marburg: Tectum, 2013).
Sarah M. Surak
Associate Professor of Political Science at Salisbury University (USA). Her interdisciplinary research spans the topics of social theory, discard studies, environmental policy, and civic education. She engages with the work of Herbert Marcuse, focusing specifically on his ecological and educational approaches. Surak is a board member of the International Herbert Marcuse Society and co-edited three collections of Marcuse’s essays with commentary. From 2015 – 2020 Surak co-Directed Salisbury University’s Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, where she now serves as a Senior Fellow.
Surti Singh
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Prior to Villanova, she was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, where she served as Principal Investigator of the Extimacies project [2018-2020]. Her research interests include Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Feminist Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics. She also currently serves as the President of the Association for Adorno Studies.
Silvio Carneiro
Assistant Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), in Brazil. He conducts his research work on Education as a member of the Rede Escola Pública e Universidade (Network for Public Schools and Universities). His work as a member of the board of directors of the International Herbert Marcuse Society has, as its focus, Critical Theory, Education, Psychoanalysis, and Politics. He is the coordinator of the Brazilian segment of international project Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South, in the context of which he inquires into the dialectics of violence, with a particular emphasis on the dual role of violence as a significant component in both revolutionary emancipation and totalitarian Terror. Author of the book Intervenções Marcuseanas: Ensaios de Teoria Crítica [Marcusean Interventions: Essays on Critical Theory ], and coordinate the editorial project Grande Recusa [Great Refusal] (Politeia Publish House) , focusing on the translation of Herbert Marcuse´s works as well as contemporary debates based on Marcusean criticism. Some of his papers can be found at https://ufabc.academia.edu/SilvioCarneiro.
Vladimir Safatle
Full professor at the Philosophy Department of USP, where he has been teaching since 2003, he is also a professor at the Psychology Institute of the same university and was visiting professor at the universities of Paris I, Paris VII, Paris VIII, Paris X, Toulouse (France), Louvain (Belgium), and Essex (England), visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (South Africa), and responsible for seminars at the Collège International de Philosophie (France) and fellow of The New Institute of Hamburg (Germany). One of the coordinators of the Research Laboratory for Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Latesfip/USP), together with Christian Dunker and Nelson da Silva Júnior, he is also a member of the board of directors of the International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. His books include:
[Ways of transforming worlds: Lacan, politics, emancipation] (2020), Dar corpo ao impossível: o sentido da dialética a partir de Adorno”[Giving body to the impossible: the meaning of dialectics from Adorno
O circuito dos afetos: corpos político, desamparo e o fim do indivíduo Cynicism and the bankruptcy of criticismThe circuit of affects: Political bodies, helplessness, and the end of the individual
] (2016), Grande Hotel Abismo – para uma reconstrução da teoria do reconhecimento [
Grand Hotel Abyss – towards a reconstruction of recognition theory] (2012),( The passion of the negative: Lacan and the dialectic
] (2006).
Terry Maley
Terry Maley teaches in the Politics Department and in the Graduate Social and Political Thought program at York University, Toronto, Canada. His most recent edited book, One-Dimensional Man 50 Years On: The Struggle Continues, was published by Fernwood in 2017. In 2021 his article, “The Relevance of Herbert Marcuse Today: Or the Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy in and Beyond the Neoliberal Era”, was published in the journal Theory Culture and Society. He is co-editor, along with Peter Erwin Jansen, Robert Kirsch and Taylor Hines, of the forthcoming volume (Palgrave, 2023), Critical Theory in Dark Times: Marcuse’s Thought in the Neoliberal Era. His co-edited book (with John R. Wallach), Envisioning Democracy: New Essays After Sheldon Wolin’s Political Thought , is forthcoming from University of Toronto Press in 2023. Maley is author of the following books: Democracy and the Political in Max Weber’s Thought (2011), The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment (1994), co-edited with Asher Horowitz. Maley’s recent research on Weber includes chapters on Weber’s famous lecture, Politics as a Vocation, authoritarianism and liberal-democracy in two volumes edited by Alan Sica (for Anthem, 2016 and Routledge, 2022). Maley’s work examines the intersections between the first generation of Frankfurt School Critical Theorists (particularly Marcuse) and radical democratic theory (Sheldon Wolin’s political thought), and the light these theoretical efforts can shed on what Maley sees as a new phase of counterrevolutionary neoliberal despotism today.
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Jeniffer Alessandra Supplizi
Civil servant at Federal University of ABC (UFABC) as educational public manager. She is graduated from International Relations in Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP/ 2006), a graduation in Public Management at Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (UMESP/2015), a specialization course in Public Management in UFABC (2016), a graduation from Education in Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS/2018) and a graduation from Languages English-Portuguese in Universidade Braz Cubas (2019). Currently working as Languages Division Head at Federal University of ABC, has been working as English teacher since 2000, and as Educational Public Manager since 2007 (São Bernardo do Campo Education Government Office) and involved with high educational research projects at UFABC: Educational Policy Permanent Forum, Post-Graduation in Humanities Preparatory School, Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South.
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