University of Wisconsin–Madison

What Brazil Reveals about the Global Far Right

Rodrigo Nunes, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

This event is presented in collaboration with IRIS Global Connect at UW-Madison.

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A man smiles wryly into the camera. His black wavy hair is short and brushed away from his forehead. His mustache and beard, also black, are closely cropped to his face and speckled with hints of gray. He wears a blue oxford shirt beneath a navy blue crewneck sweater.

Rodrigo Nunes is an associate professor in modern and contemporary philosophy at the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in Brazil, and a visiting fellow at the University of Essex in the UK. He is the author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization (Verso, 2021) and Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals about the Global Far Right (Haymarket, 2026), among other titles in several languages. His texts have appeared in publications such as Les Temps Modernes, Radical Philosophy, South Atlantic Quarterly, Boston Review, Jacobin and The Guardian. As a popular educator and organizer, he has been involved in several initiatives over the years, including the first editions of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre.