Theory as a not-all: materialism and singularity. Interview with Eduardo Grüner

Eduardo Grüner (1946) holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and an honorary doctorate from the National University of Córdoba. He was a tenured professor of Sociology and Anthropology of Art and Literature and Film (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters/UBA), and of Political and Social Theory II (Faculty of Social Sciences/UBA). He is currently a tenured professor in the Master's Program in Contemporary Aesthetics at the National University of Avellaneda (UNDAV). He has been a visiting professor in postgraduate programs at several national universities. He has also been a visiting professor and lecturer at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Inter-American University of Colombia (UI), the Andean University of Ecuador, the University of Costa Rica, the Javeriana University (Colombia), the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the University of Essex (UK), and the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid). He served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA) and as the organizing director of the IEALC (Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/UBA). He was a member of the editorial boards of the magazines Sitio, Cinégrafo, Conjetural, Confines, El Cielo por Asalto, Diatribas, and El Rodaballo. He received the National Essay Prize from the Argentine Secretariat of Culture (2011), the Konex Prize for Philosophy (2004), and two first honorable mentions in the Libertador Prize for Critical Thought (2005 and 2010). He is the author of the books Un género culpable (2010 [1995]), Las formas de la espada (1997), El sitio de la mirada (2000), El fin de las pequeñas historias (2016 [2002]), La cosa política (2005), La oscuridad y las luces (2010), Iconografías malditas, imágenes desencantadas (2017), The Haitian Revolution (2019), La obsesión del origen (2020), and over one hundred essays in edited volumes and specialized journals.

Gisela Catanzaro She is a sociologist and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She works as an Independent Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and a Researcher at the Gino Germani Institute. She is a tenured professor of Theories on Ideology and an adjunct professor of Politics, New Subjectivity, and Discourse: Theoretical Problems and Contemporary Debates in the Political Science and Sociology programs at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She also regularly teaches Master's and Doctoral courses at the same university. She has published the books Spectrology of the Right (2021), The Nation Between Nature and History: On the Modes of Critique (2011), The Adventures of Marxism: Dialectics and Immanence in the Critique of Modernity, co-authored with Ezequiel Ipar (2003), and co-edited with Leonor Arfuch, Imperfect Past: Critical Readings of Events (2008 and 2017). Since 2012, he has directed a research group at the Gino Germani Research Institute (FSOC-UBA) that seeks to investigate the affinities and ruptures existing between the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and French (post)structuralism, and which currently focuses on the analysis of the transformations of ideology in contemporary neoliberalism.