In this interview, we spoke with Douglas Barros, discussing his political and intellectual trajectory that culminated in the writing of his most recent book, What is Identitarianism? In addressing this issue, we explored the category of identity itself, especially seeking to understand why Douglas understands it as a “subjectively necessary illusion”. Seeking to understand how identitarianism became such a relevant issue for our time, we discussed how it emerged between a neoliberal worldview and the objective transformations of capitalism after the 70s. From this, we were finally able to understand how identitarianism became a paradigm of social management of neoliberalism and how we can find ways to emancipate ourselves under these conditions.
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Douglas Rodrigues Barros is a psychoanalyst, member of the Fórum do Campo Lacaniano and professor at the D'alma Institute for training and extension in psychoanalysis. He holds a PhD in ethics and political philosophy from Unifesp, and is a professor affiliated with the Laboratory of Comparative Colonial Experiences of the Institute of History of the Fluminense Federal University and a member of ÍMPAR – Laboratory of Critical Studies of the Family, of the FFLCH. In his research, he mainly investigates the intersections between German philosophy, psychoanalysis and Afro-diasporic thought and their main theoretical contributions in the fields of art, subjectivity and politics. He is the author of the books Lugar de negro, lugar de branco? Esboço para uma crítica à metafísica racial (Black Place, White Place? Sketch for a Critique of Racial Metaphysics), Hegel e o sentido do político (Hegel and the Meaning of Politics), Guy Debord: antimanual de leitura (Guy Debord: Anti-Manual for Reading), and has just released, by the publisher Boitempo, O que é identitarismo? (What is Identity?). Finally, he also has a literary production, with the novels Cartas Estudantis (Student Letters), Os terroristos (The Terrorists) and In the Beginning was the Word. The website A Terra é Redonda is a space for public intervention by intellectuals, academics and social movement activists. The articles posted are part of the lineage of critical reflection on the multiple dimensions of capitalist society against the advances of barbarism. –
DOUGLAS' BOOKS
What is identitarianism [https://amzn.to/4h5zGix]
The Bolsonarism Trap and the Limits of Lulism [https://amzn.to/40nH2sy]
Nobody Said It Would Be Easy [https://amzn.to/4gMJu1I]
Reactionary Labyrinth: The Danger of Historical Defeat [https://amzn.to/4gHW3LH]
A Reformism Almost Without Reforms [https://amzn.to/3PmER2e[
Dangerous Corners of History [https://amzn.to/4h3KmPc]
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