Allende Renck
Allende Renck is an Italo-Brazilian cultural theorist. He works as a literary critic, art historian, curator, professor, translator, editor, philosopher, and political theorist. He is best known for his work on the interdisciplinary nature of aesthetic and artistic media; his contributions to the thought of the Afro-Atlantic Aesthetic Tradition which is the subject of his current Ph.D. research at the Literature Department of the Federal University of Santa Catarina; his studies on music – particularly Jazz; his debates on the intersection of Psychoanalysis, Art, and Politics; and his analysis of cultural trends in the post-pandemic development of neoliberal capitalism. He is also recognized for his contributions to the critical reception of authors such as Frantz Fanon, Hal Foster, Achille Mbembe, Mark Fisher, Shana Redmond, Walter Benjamin, Robert O’Meally, Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, and Anne Lafont
