Gustavo Robles

Post-Doc Fellow

Portrait of Gustavo Robles

Gustavo Robles is an IRGAC Postdoc Fellow working on the subjective dimensions in the current phase of neoliberal governmentality. He has been an Associated Professor at the National University of La Plata (Argentina), and carried out research stays at different German universities, including the University of Frankfurt, the University of Jena, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. His areas of interest are Critical Theory, contemporary political thought, philosophy of history, and social philosophy. Furthermore, he is an activist in different political and cultural collectives in Argentina and Germany related to issues such as human rights and immigrant working conditions.

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The Platformization of Work and the Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Theory & ResearchConstant 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

Samir Gandesha: “Today’s fascism is based on our need for meaning in life”

InterviewIn our interview with Samir Gandesha we discuss the relation between authoritarianism, colonialism, and crisis – the climate crisis, the crisis of masculinity, and the crisis of the left, among others. In this context, “social anxieties become transformed into political fears through populist rhetoric”, Gandesha claims. But for him, authoritarian tendencies aren’t limited to the far-right; they are also at the very core of the moralizing spirit of the “woke” left.
By Börries Nehe and Gustavo Robles