2025—present
Eduardo
Altheman
I study the changing forms of capitalism and authoritarianism— and the futures they make imaginable, or impossible.
01 / Profile

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), Heidelberg University.
My research moves between sociology, political economy and Critical Theory. I am interested in how cutting-edge capitalist technologies reorganise labour, subjectivity and political imagination, and how these transformations streamline contemporary authoritarianism.
02 / Research
Lines of inquiry
01Critical Theory
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Reconstructing the Frankfurt School as a living method for diagnosing domination, contradiction and unrealised possibilities in the present.
02Platform Capitalism
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Examining platforms not simply as technologies or firms, but as a social form reorganising labour, class, culture and everyday conduct.
03Fascism & Authoritarianism
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Tracing how contemporary authoritarianism changes with capitalism, from mass integration to digitally organised atomisation, resentment and exclusion.
04Apocalyptic Studies
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Studying the apocalypse as a political grammar through which societies organise fear, futurity, catastrophe and the unequal distribution of survival.
05Neoliberalism
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Approaching neoliberalism as a political rationality and form of subjectivation that extends market imperatives far beyond the economy.
06Political Economy
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Connecting economic forms to power, institutions and social experience, with particular attention to labour, monopoly and the Global South.
03 / Publications
Selected work

Special issue
Leyendo a Herbert Marcuse contra el presente
Constelaciones: Revista de Teoría Crítica, 17 · guest editor

Journal article
Theses on Platform Capitalism and Neoliberalism
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 23, 205–222

Edited volume
The Marcusean Mind
Routledge · co-edited with J. Fast, N. K. Mayberry & S. Simpson

Book chapter
Foucault vs. Marcuse?
Palgrave Macmillan

Monograph
A economia do poder e o poder da economia
FFLCH / Universidade de São Paulo
04 / Curriculum vitae
Academic trajectory
2024—2025
Research Fellow
CAPAS · Heidelberg University2019—2024
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Sociology · University of São Paulo2016
Visiting Scholar
Duke University · supervised by Fredric Jameson2014—2015
Visiting Researcher
Goethe University Frankfurt · hosted by Thomas LemkePostdoctoral
International Herbert Marcuse Society
Marielle Franco Prize recipientPhD