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The Gramsci of the Brazilian Right
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 67, Number 3, Summer 2020
- pp. 23-27
- 10.1353/dss.2020.0053
- Article
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Abstract:
Watching online lectures by the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, one might take him for just another angry YouTube ranter. His videos have poor production values: the camera looms too close to his face, and the lighting is often too bright or too dark. He records himself at his home office in Petersburg, Virginia (he abandoned his native Brazil during Lula da Silva's first term), with crammed bookshelves visible behind him. If he's not smoking as he talks, he's ready to, with cigarettes and a lighter placed before him on his desk.