Vladimir Safatle, professor of philosophy at Universidade de São Paulo, author of books on psychoanalysis, critical theory, philosophy of music and leftist politics, among others: “Le circuit des affects: corps politiques, détresse et la fin de l'individu” (Le orbs de l’eau, 2022), Grand Hotel Abyss: desire, recognition and the restoration of the subject (Leuven University Press, 2016) and La passion du négatif: Lacan et la dialectique (George Olms, 2010).