Rodrigo Nunes

Rodrigo Nunes is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Political Theory and Organisation at the University of Essex, and a collaborating professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).

He is the author of Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks (Mute, 2014), Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation (Verso, 2021) and Do Transe à Vertigem: Ensaios sobre Bolsonarismo e um Mundo em Transição (Ubu, 2022; English translation forthcoming as The View from Brazil, Verso, 20225), as well as several articles in academic journals and media outlets around the world. He has also edited or co-edited special issues and dossiers for Les Temps Modernes, Radical Philosophy and ephemera.

His work focuses on the interface of politics and ontology, and is interested in such questions as organisation, scale, networks, information, affect, identity-formation, realism, speculative philosophy and perspectivism.

With a PhD in Philosophy from Goldsmiths, University of London, he was an associate professor at the Philosophy Department at PUC-Rio from 2013 to 2023, a visiting researcher at Brown University and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of Westminster, University of East London and the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro, among others. As an organiser and popular educator, he has been involved in several initiatives and campaigns over the years, including the first editions of the World Social Forum and the Justice for Cleaners campaign (London). In 2022, he won the prize for best book of essays from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA) for Do Transe à Vertigem and a Scientist of Our State award from the Rio de Janeiro State Foundation for Research (FAPERJ) for his work on the concept of transition.