Bruna della Torre
Frankfurt School, Marxist theory, Feminist Studies, Fascism studies, Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature, Latin American Critical Theory
Born in São Paulo in 1987. 2009-2012 Studies in Social Sciences and Social Anthropology, 2017 Graduation in Sociology at the University of São Paulo. Visiting Scholar and Fellow at, among others, University of Brasília, University of São Paulo, Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Duke University, USA, and Humboldt University Berlin. Currently, Executive Editor of Journal Crítica Marxista (Brasil), Horkheimer Fellow at the IfS and Post-doctoral researcher at the Sociology Department of State University of Campinas. Feminist Collective Founding Member (https://www.marxismofeminista.com/).
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. [eng. Backwardness of the Vanguard or Vanguard of the Backwardness? Oswald de Andrade and the Stubborn Destinies of Brazil]
Della Torre, Bruna 2023: Culture Industry, a (political) research agenda for Critical Theory. Global Dialogue. Magazine of the International Sociological Association. (forthcoming)
Della Torre, Bruna 2023: Indústria cultural. O conceito e sua atualidade em 7 teses [eng. Culture industry. The concept and its relevance in 7 theses]. Revista do Centro de Pesquisa e Formação. (forthcoming)
Della Torre, Bruna. 2022: Aquellos años veinte en Brasil: good old days or bad new ones? [eng. Those 20s in Brazil: good old days or bad new ones?] Revista chilena de literatura 106, 285–316.
Della Torre, Bruna and Eduardo Altheman 2022: Nicht mitmachen and Weitermachen: Rereading Adorno and Marcuse on Theory and Praxis. Rethinking Marxism 34, 63–80.
Della Torre, Bruna 2019: Adorno, leitor de Marx [eng. Adorno reads Marx]. Revista Sociologia & Antropologia 9, 519–541.
Della Torre, Bruna 2023: The Woman with the Pink shotgun: Apocalypse in Bolsonaro's Brazil, in: Jenny Stümer (Hg.): Worlds Ending – Ending Worlds. Berlin: DeGruyter. (forthcoming)
Della Torre, Bruna 2022: Cultura y Política, ayer y hoy [eng. Culture and politics, now and then]. Entrevista a Roberto Schwarz, in: Mónica Gonzalez Garcia und Horst Nitschak (Hg.): 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 und Nathalie Brassiani 2023: Entrevista com Nancy Fraser [eng. Interview with Nancy Fraser]. 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 [eng. Interview with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya]. Crítica Marxista 24, 147–160.
Della Torre, Bruna 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. [eng. Weiterdenken. Interview with Michael Schwarz]. Dissonância 3, 1–10.
Della Torre, Bruna 2020: »Ich überlasse Ihnen das zum Weiterdenken«. Die Vorträge von Theodor W. Adorno. Interview mit Michael Schwarz. ›www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivabteilungen/walter-benjamin-archiv/neuigkeiten.htm?we_objectID=61124‹.
Della Torre, Bruna 2020: Os labirintos de Marx. Entrevista com Michael Heinrich [eng. 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 [eng. 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.
