Vladimir Safatle

Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle (born June 3, 1973) is a Brazilian philosopher, writer and musician. He is a professor of Theory of Human Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo. His intellectual production focuses on the areas of epistemology of psychoanalysis and psychology, political philosophy, critical theory and philosophy of music.

Biography
Son of former guerrilla Fernando Safatle, who participated in the armed struggle against the dictatorship in Brazil as a member of the National Liberation Action, and Ilmeide Tavares Pinheiro, Vladimir Safatle was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1973. His family moved to Brazil due to Augusto Pinochet's rise to power, when Vladimir was just a few months old. In Brazil, they first settled in Brasília and, from 1987, in Goiânia.

In 1991, he moved to São Paulo, where he began his university studies. She simultaneously studied philosophy at the University of São Paulo and advertising at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM). In 1997, he completed his master's degree in philosophy at the University of São Paulo, and in 2002 he completed his doctorate in "Spaces and transformations of philosophy" at the University Paris VIII, under the guidance of Alain Badiou. Since 2003, Vladimir Safatle has been a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo.

Safatle is also a composer, having composed soundtracks for plays such as Leite Derramado and Caesar, both by Roberto Alvim. For Caesar, he received the 2015 Aplauso Award for Best Original Soundtrack. In 2019, together with singer Fabiana Lian, he released the album Músicas de Superfície, with pieces for piano and voice composed between 1994 and 1998. In 2021, he released the album Tempo Tátil.

Between 2010 and 2019, he was a weekly columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. He constantly appears on television programs, having been a political commentator for Jornal da Cultura for four years. He is currently a columnist for the newspaper El País.

In the 2022 election, he ran for federal deputy for São Paulo, but was not elected.

Books

 * Um limite tenso: Lacan entre a filosofia e a psicanálise. São Paulo: Editora Unesp
 * O tempo, o objeto e o avesso: ensaios de filosofia e psicanálise. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica (co-organization)
 * Sobre arte e psicanálise. São Paulo: Editora Escuta (co-organization)
 * A Paixão do Negativo: Lacan e a dialética São Paulo: Unesp.
 * Lacan. São Paulo: Publifolha (republicado pela Editora Autêntica).
 * Ensaios sobre música e filosofia. São Paulo: Editora Humanitas (co-organization)
 * A filosofia após Freud. São Paulo: Humanitas (co-organization)
 * Cinismo e falência da crítica. São Paulo: Boitempo.
 * La passion du négatif : Lacan et la dialectique. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag.
 * Fetichismo : colonizar o Outro. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira.
 * O que resta da ditadura: a exceção brasileira. São Paulo: Boitempo (co-organization)
 * A esquerda que não teme dizer seu nome. São Paulo: Três Estrelas.
 * Grande hotel abismo: por uma reconstrução da teoria do reconhecimento. São Paulo: WMF Martins Fontes.
 * La Izquierda que no teme decir su nombre. Santiago: LOM Ediciones
 * O Circuito dos Afetos: Corpos Políticos, Desamparo e o Fim do Indivíduo São Paulo: Cosac Naify (republicado pela Editora Autêntica).
 * Grand Hotel Abyss: desire, recognition and the restoration of the subject. Leuven University Press
 * Quando as ruas queimam: manifesto pela emergência. São Paulo: N-1 edições
 * Só mais um esforço. São Paulo: Três Estrelas
 * Patologias do social: arqueologias do sofrimento psíquico. São Paulo: Autêntica (co-organization)
 * Um dia, esta luta iria ocorrer. São Paulo: N-1 edições
 * Dar corpo ao impossível: o sentido da dialética a partir de Theodor Adorno. Belo Horizonte. Autêntica
 * El circuito de los afectos: cuerpos politicos, desamparo y fin del individuo. Cali: Editorial Buonaventura
 * Maneiras de transformar mundo: Lacan, política e emancipação, Belo Horizonte, Autêntica
 * O neoliberalismo como gestão do sofrimento psíquico, Belo Horizonte : Autêntica (co-organization)
 * Em um com o impulso: experiência estética e emancipação social - Bloco I. São Paulo: Autêntica Editora.
 * Junho de 2013: rebelião fantasma. São Paulo: Boitempo. (co-author)
 * Alfabeto das colisões. São Paulo: Ubu Editora