Openings

Volume 35, Nos. 1-2 Fall 2021-Spring 2022

Editors' Note

Contributors

Culture Industry, Subjectivity, and Domination: Adorno and the Radio Project by Bruna Della Torre

Bruna Della Torre traces the development of Adorno’s concept of the “culture industry” through his early works on music.

Locating the Self: Imputing and Resisting Identity in the Diaries of Carolina de Jesus by Fabio Akcelrud Durão

Fabio Akcelrud Durão argues that the diaries of Carolina de Jesus exemplify how the lived experience of extreme poverty limits the ability of a construction of the self.

Review Dossier

Até Então (Until Then) by Tavid Mulder

Tavid Mulder reviews Dar corpo ao impossível: O sentido da dialética de Theodor Adorno by Vladimir Safatle.

Paulo Arantes and the Order of Time: Temporal Determinants of a Global Order by Silvia L. López

Silvia L. López reviews Paulo Arantes’s O novo tempo do mundo: e outros estudos sobre a era da emergência.

Anyway... by Nicholas Brown

Nicholas Brown reviews two works by Roberto Schwarz, Seja como for: Entrevistas, retratos e documentos and Rainha Lira: Peça teatral.

Book Reviews

Internationalism and the Global Moment: Rereading World Literature by Romy Rajan

Romy Rajan reviews Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery.

We Need Hope by Brent Ryan Bellamy

Brent Ryan Bellamy reviews Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia for Dark Times by Phillip E. Wegner.