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Fellow 2021-2022BRUNA DELLA TORRE

Term: 12/2021 – 10/2022

Bruna Della Torre is post-doctoral researcher at the Sociology Department at University of Campinas where she holds a fellowship from Fapesp. She was a lecturer at the University of Brasília (2021/ 2017-2018) and since 2018 has been the executive Editor of the Crítica Marxista Journal. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Department at the University of São Paulo (2018-2021), as well as Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at UNIESP (2013-2015). She holds a PhD in Sociology (2017/University of São Paulo) where she presented, and subsequently defended, the dissertation: Theodor W. Adorno, crítico dialético da cultura (Adorno, Dialectical Critic of Culture). She also holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology (University of São Paulo); delivering her master’s dissertation Vanguarda do Atraso ou Atraso da Vanguarda? Oswald de Andrade e os teimosos destinos do Brasil (Backwardness of the Vanguard or Vanguard of the Backwardness? Oswald de Andrade and the Stubborn Destinies of Brazil) in 2012. She also holds a BA in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo. 
In 2019 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Humboldt University of Berlin’s Philosophy Department as well as at the Akademie der Künste at both the Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno Archives (2014-2015). Previously she spend a year as Visiting Scholar at Duke’s University Literature Department (2015-2016). She also was a Visiting Scholar at Goethe University Frankfurt’s Sociology Department (2014–2015). In 2019 she published the book: Vanguarda do Atraso ou Atraso da Vanguarda? Oswald de Andrade e os teimosos destinos do Brasil. São Paulo: Alameda Editorial. She was awarded the following fellowships and grants: National Post-doctoral Fellowship, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (2018-2021); Research Stay for Scientific Academics and Scientists, DAAD (2019); Conference Travel Grant, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, CAPES (2019); Grant for conference organization. Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, Bologna University, Duke University, UVA (2019).

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INTERVIEW WITH CAPAS FELLOW BRUNA DELLA TORRE

Digital Culture Industry and Right-Wing Radicalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Inspired by the studies of the Frankfurt School and its contemporary successors, this postdoctoral research aims to study the recent right-wing radicalism in Brazil, mobilizing apocalypse as a boundary concept to understand this phenomenon. The line of investigation, I propose, is the self-destructive tendencies in the Brazilian social body concerning President Jair Bolsonaro’s politics. The preliminary concept will be to investigate the relations between digital culture industry and the far-right propaganda it conveys and, on the one hand, the rise of authoritarianism in the country. The methodology resorts to a multi-method approach of analysis: firstly, the political advertising content and techniques on social media will be investigated; subsequently, our focus will turn to the profile of the consumers of such advertising, composed of constituents who voted for and support Jair Bolsonaro.

Profile of Bruna Della Torre on the web page of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development