Bruna della Torre
Critical Theory, Marxism, Feminism, Analysis and Critique of Capitalism, Studies on culture industry and right-wing Propaganda, Literary, Theater and art Criticism, Modernism
2009 to 2012 studies in Social Sciences and Social Anthropology. 2017 Graduation in Sociology at the University of São Paulo. Visiting Scholar and Fellow at University of Brasília, University of São Paulo, Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Duke University, and the Humboldt University of Berlin, among others. Currently, Executive Editor of Journal Crítica Marxista and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sociology Department of State University of Campinas. Founding member of the feminist collective Marxismo Feminista. Horkheimer Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in 2023.
Della Torre, Bruna. Forthcoming in 2023. Roberto Schwarz, Machado de Assis e o problema do realismo [Roberto Schwarz, Machado de Assis and the issue of Realism]. Letterature d'America.
Della Torre, Bruna. Forthcoming in 2023. Romance e reificação: Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno e Fredric Jameson. À ocasião do Centenário de História e Consciência de Classe [Romance and Reification: Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, and Fredric Jameson. On the centenary of History and Class Consciousness]. Anuário Lukács, 10 (1).
Della Torre, Bruna. Forthcoming in 2023. Culture Industry, a (political) research agenda for Critical Theory. Global Dialogue. Magazine of the International Sociological Association.
Della Torre, Bruna. Forthcoming in 2023. Indústria cultural. O conceito e sua atualidade em 7 teses [Culture industry. The concept and its relevance in 7 theses]. Revista do Centro de Pesquisa e Formação.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. Culture Industry, Subjectivity, and Domination: Adorno and the Radio Project. Mediations - Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, 35: 3-34.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. 22: cem anos depois: Centenary of Week of Modern Art: The Anthropophagic Utopia Survives, more Current than ever. Brazilian Research and Studies Center BraS, 3: 1-10.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. Aquellos años veinte en Brasil: good old days or bad new ones? [Those 20s in Brazil: good old days or bad new ones?] Revista chilena de literatura, 106: 285-316.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. Nicht mitmachen and Weitermachen: Rereading Adorno and Marcuse on Theory and Praxis. (Co-author: Eduardo Altheman). Rethinking Marxism, 34: 63-80.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2021. Dialética da desumanização [Dialectic of dehumanization]. Sociologia & Antropologia, 11: 195-199.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2020. Com quantos paus se faz uma canoa? Notas sobre a personalidade autoritária. [How many swallows makea summer? Notes on The Authoritarian Personality. Crítica Marxista. Sao Paulo, 50: 103-110.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2020. Abra-te Sésamo: a teoria crítica de Gabriel Cohn. [Open sesame: the critical theory of Gabriel Cohn]. Revista Sociologia & Antropologia. Rio de Janeiro, 10: 449-465.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2019. Vanguarda do Atraso ou Atraso da Vanguarda? Oswald de Andrade e os teimosos destinos do Brasil. São Paulo, Alameda Editorial. [Backwardness of the Vanguard or Vanguard of the Backwardness? Oswald de Andrade and the Stubborn Destinies of Brazil]
Della Torre, Bruna. 2019. Neoliberal unfoldings of Lulism. (Co-authors: Eduardo Altheman; Vladimir
Puzone). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas Sobre as Américas, 13: 271-297.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2019. Abaixo da superfície: Adorno e o cinema revisitado [Below the Surface: Adorno and Cinema Reconsidered]. Novos Estudos CEBRAP. São Paulo, 38: 477-493.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2019. Adorno, leitor de Marx [Adorno reads Marx]. Revista Sociologia & Antropologia, 9: 519-541.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2019. Vanguarda do Atraso ou Atraso da Vanguarda? Oswald de Andrade e os teimosos destinos do Brasil. São Paulo, Alameda Editorial. [Backwardness of the Vanguard or Vanguard of the Backwardness? Oswald de Andrade and the Stubborn Destinies of Brazil]
Della Torre, Bruna. Forthcoming in 2023. The Woman with the Pink shotgun: Apocalypse in Bolsonaro's Brazil. In: Jenny Stümer (Ed.). Worlds Ending – Ending Worlds. Berlin: DeGruyter.
Della Torre, Bruna. Forthcoming in 2023. Marxismo feminista [Feminist Marxism]. In: Camila Galetti; Jéssica Melo Rivetti (Eds.) Feminismos em Movimento. São Paulo: Luas.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2023. Macunaíma: la epopeya negativa de Mário de Andrade [Macunaíma: the Negative Epic of Mário de Andrade]. In: Mónica González García; Sarah Moody; Astrid Santana Fernández de Castro (Eds.). Las fracturas del mármol - Heroicidades latinoamericanas a contrapelo. Havana/Buenos Aires: CLACSO; La Habana Editorial, p. 159-183.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2023. Classe ou massa? Freud, Adorno e Marx. [Class or Mass? Freud, Adorno, and Marx] In: Raphael Seabra; Stefan Klein (Eds). Marx 200 Anos - questões, debates e vigência nas Ciências Sociais. Brasília: Zouk.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. Dos veces cultura y política [Culture and Politics twice]. In: Mónica Gonzalez Garcia; Horst Nitschak. (Eds.). Diálogos Sur-Sur: década de 1960 y transformaciones culturales en Brasil y las Américas. Homenaje a Roberto Schwarz. Santiago de Chile: Universitaria, 2022, 161-182.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. Cultura y Política, ayer y hoy [Culture and politics, now and then]. Entrevista a Roberto Schwarz. In: Mónica Gonzalez Garcia; Horst Nitschak. (Eds.). Diálogos Sur-Sur: década de 1960 y transformaciones culturales en Brasil y las Américas. Homenaje a Roberto Schwarz. Santiago de Chile: Universitaria, 281-292.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. Karl Marx na metrópole do capital [Karl Marx in the Metropolis of Capital] (Co-author: Vladimir Puzone) In: Daniel Lago Monteiro; John Milton; Júlia Braga Neves; Marcelo Pen Parreira; Nilce M. Pereira; Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass. (Eds.). Vitorianos. Contradições e desdobramentos. São Paulo: LiberArs, 59-78.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2019. Cultura e Política, ontem e hoje. Entrevista com Roberto Schwarz [Culture and Politics, now and then: Interview with Roberto Schwarz. In: Roberto Schwarz. (Ed.). Seja como for: entrevistas, retratos e documentos. São Paulo: Editora 34, 314-327.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2017. Appendix: Interview with Bruna Della Torre de Carvalho Lima and Eduardo Altheman Camargo Santos. In: Darrell P. Arnold; Andreas Michel. (Eds.). Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg. Springer International Publishing, 319-326.
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Della Torre, Bruna. Forthcoming in 2023. 100 anos do Instituto de Pesquisa Social - Entrevista com Martin Jay Co-Authored with Eduardo Altheman [100 years of the Institute for Social Research - Interview with Martin Jay]. Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2023. Entrevista com Nancy Fraser [Interview with Nancy Fraser]. Co-authored with Nathalie Brsssiani. Margem Esquerda, 41: 11-35.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022. The holy family: Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism in the Current Far-Right: Interview with Melinda Cooper. Cultural Dynamics, 34 (3): 242„250.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2020. Entrevista com Cinzia Arruzza e Tithi Bhattacharya [Interview with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya]. Crítica Marxista, 24: 147-160.
2020. Neo-backwardness in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (Interview with Roberto Schwarz). New Left Review, 123: 25-38.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2020. Weiterdenken. Uma entrevista com Michael Schwarz. [Weiterdenken. Interview with Michael Schwarz]. Dissonância, 3: 1-10.
Della Torre, Bruna. German version: “Ich überlasse Ihnen das zum Weiterdenken „ Die Vorträge von Theodor W. Adorno - Interview mit Michael Schwarz. Akademie der Künste Website.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2020. Os labirintos de Marx. Entrevista com Michael Heinrich [Marx's mazes: interview with Michael Heinrich]. Crítica Marxista, 50: 275-288.
Della Torre, Bruna. 2018. Escola de Frankfurt, Foucault e o neoliberalismo. Entrevista com Thomas Lemke [Frankfurt School, Foucault, and Neoliberalism. Interview with Thomas Lemke]. Tempo Social, 29 (1): 305-313.
The New Organization. Digital Culture Industry, Social Networks, and Right-Wing Propaganda in Brazil
The project reframes Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s concept of culture industry and the Frankfurt School’s studies of propaganda (as well as its contemporary successors) to analyze how the digital apparatus of social media impacts democracies in the Global South, with a particular focus on the recent Brazilian experiment. The objective is to investigate the relationship between the rise of right-wing extremism and the »Digital Culture Industry«. Within this scope, the idea proposed in this project is to expand the analysis of this propaganda concerning specific themes refined by theoretical and virtual ethnographic research so far. This implicates investigating the agitation that circulates mainly on social networks related to the defense of freedom (of speech and to carry weapons), anti-feminism and the so-called »Gender Ideology«, the spread of conspiracy theories, and the mobilization of apocalypticism. The goal of this research stay at the IfS is to write a book project inspired by the studies carried out in the 1940s by Leo Löwenthal and Norbert Guterman entitled Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator (1948), in which the techniques of anti-democratic propaganda and its contents are thoroughly analyzed.
