Rodrigo Nunes

Rodrigo Nunes works in modern and contemporary philosophy, particularly in the fields of ontology and political philosophy. He is the author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organisation (Verso, 2021) and Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks (Mute/PML Books, 2014). He was a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2007-2008), University of East London (2008-2009), University of Westminster (2008), and Jan Van Eyck Academie (2010), as well as a visiting scholar at Brown University (2018-2019). He held CAPES grants for his MA (PUCRS) and PhD (Goldsmiths, University of London), CAPES/PNPD and FAPERGS post-doctoral grants (PUCRS) and a Convênio PUC-Rio/Brown grant (Brown University). He coordinates the CAPES Internationalisation Programme-funded international project Política e Pensadores em Rede: Movimentos Sociais, Instituições e Governança, the Contemporary Ontologies Working Group (ANPOF), and the research group Materialisms: Ontology, Science and Politics in Contemporary Philosophy (CNPq), and is a member of the Brazilian Centre of Research in Democracy and the Centre for Research in Contemporary French Philosophy. He was a member of the editorial committee of the journal Turbulence and is currently in the editorial board of Social Movement Studies. As a curator, he organised the event ‘Stronger Are the Powers of the People’: Politics, Poetics and Popular Education in Brazilian Cinema, 1962-1979, held in London and Berlin. He lives in London and teaches at the University of Essex. (2023, upd.)

Publications

• Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks, London: Mute, and Lüneburg: Post-Media Lab, 2014, 53 pp.
• Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation, London: Verso, 2021, 320 pp. Publisher.
• Do transe à vertigem: Ensaios sobre bolsonarismo e um mundo em transição, São Paulo: Ubu, 2022, 208 pp, EPUB. Publisher. (Brazilian Portuguese)

Links

• Profile on PUC Rio
• Academia.edu