Gustavo Robles

Associate Fellow

Gustavo Robles is a Gerda Henkel Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Passau (Germany) and a Research Fellow with the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation). His research focuses on the subjective dimensions of neoliberal governmentality, the political economy of digital capitalism, and the intersections between authoritarianism, democracy, and platformization. His broader areas of interest include Critical Theory, contemporary political thought, social philosophy, and the philosophy of history. He has taught as an Associate Professor at the National University of La Plata (Argentina) and held research stays at the University of Frankfurt, Jena, Salvador da Bahia, Berlin (Humboldt), and Potsdam. Beyond academia, he is active in political and cultural collectives in Argentina and Germany, engaged with struggles around human rights, labor, and migrant working conditions.

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Pierre Dardot: "We Are Witnessing a Civil War Against Collective Rights"

Interview In an era of rising global authoritarianism, what is the role of the state? How do violence and governmentality intersect? Can the commons still hold emancipatory potential?" These were some of the pressing questions explored in a lively exchange with philosopher Pierre Dardot.

By Gustavo Robles

From (Individual) Fears to (Collective) Cares

Theory & Research Neoliberalism has dismantled the social structures that offered security and orientation to life. The far right successfully channels the resulting fears and anxieties towards purist, social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of care stands as a defiant response to that. In an era defined by uncertainty and precarity, care emerges as survival, resistance, and imagination. Care is a counter-normative project: sustaining and (re)generating social life while embracing contradiction and resisting the demands for purity.

By Firoozeh Farvardin and Gustavo Robles

The Platformization of Work and the Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Theory & Research Constant surveillance, evaluation mechanisms, and unjustified suspensions, the anonymization of the relationship with the employer, all reveal that the authoritarian face of neoliberalism also has its microphysical expression in the world of work, where ideologies of freedom, autonomy, and self-responsibility coexist with the opacity and arbitrariness of digital management

By Gustavo Robles