Describing the superior stage of a totalitarian culture between materialism and human subjectivity

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-1507.v33i1p4-8

Keywords:

Totalitarian culture, Dennis de Oliveira, Capitalist realism, Historical and dialectical materialism, Subjectivity of human thought

Abstract

This book review of Totalitarian Culture: Human Sociability in Question, by Dennis de Oliveira, describes how the author reaches the highest point of his intellectual work between his expressions of academia and activism, questioning how a book of questions—based on the Marxist historical materialism impounded by cases of a material reality that is unpalatable and inexplicable to contemporary humans – can pave the way for a new way of thinking (through the margins of the system), a solution to capitalist realism and its higher cultural expression, defined by the author as totalitarian culture.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

  • Daniel Azevedo Muñoz, Autonomous University of Madrid

    Doutor em História Contemporânea pela Universidade Autônoma de Madri (Espanha). Graduado em Comunicação Social, com habilitação em Jornalismo, pela Universidade de São Paulo e mestre em História Contemporânea pela Universidade Autônoma de Madri. Email: danielmunoz321@gmail.com.

References

ADORNO, Theodor W. & HORKHEIMER, Max. Dialética do esclarecimento. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1985.

BENJAMIN, Walter. Sobre o conceito de história. São Paulo: Alameda, 2020.

FISHER, Mark. Realismo capitalista: é mais fácil imaginar o fim do mundo que o fim do capitalismo. São Paulo: Autonomia Literária, 2018.

FREIRE, Paulo. Pedagogia do oprimido. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 2019.

MARCONDES FILHO, C. Nova teoria da comunicação: o rosto e a máquina: o fenômeno da comunicação visto dos ângulos humano, medial e tecnológico, v. 1. São Paulo: Paulus, 2013.

OLIVEIRA, Dennis de. Ação direta do capital: o poder do capitalismo contemporâneo. Revista psicologia política, vol. 15, n. 33, p. 405-421, 2015.

OLIVEIRA, Dennis de. Cultura totalitária: a sociabilidade humana em questão. São Paulo: Instituto Abya Yala, 2025.

OLIVEIRA, Dennis de. Jornalismo e os dilemas da sociedade da inflação de informações. São Paulo: Instituto Abya Yala, 2019.

OLIVEIRA, Dennis de. Racismo estrutural: uma perspectiva histórico-crítica. São Paulo: Dandara, 2021.

RIBEIRO, Darcy. O dilema da América Latina: estruturas de poder e forças insurgentes. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1979.

Downloads

Published

02-03-2026

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2026): Jornalismo Popular e Alternativo

Section

Reviews

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Daniel Azevedo Muñoz

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

When submitting any scientific material to Revista Alterjor, the author, hereinafter the creator, agrees to license his work within the scope of Creative Commons, in which his work can be accessed and cited by another author in a possible work, but requires the maintenance of all authors who make up the entire work, including those who served as the basis for the first.

All work published here is titled under the following categories of the Creative Commons License (by/nc/nd):

  • Attribution (of all authors that make up the work);
  • Non-commercial use under any circumstances;
  • Prohibition of derivative works (the work cannot be rewritten by third parties. Only original texts are considered);
  • Unlimited distribution, display and copying by any means, as long as no financial costs are repassed by.

Under no circumstances the Journal Alterjor license may be reverted to another standard, except for a new Creative Commons update.

How to Cite

MUÑOZ, Daniel Azevedo. Describing the superior stage of a totalitarian culture between materialism and human subjectivity. Alterjor Journal, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 33, n. 1, p. 4–8, 2026. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2176-1507.v33i1p4-8. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/alterjor/article/view/243855. Acesso em: 6 may. 2026.