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Raphael F. Alvarenga

Raphael F. Alvarenga holds a PhD in philosophy and is a founding member of the editorial collective behind Sinal de Menos. He has also published in The Brooklyn Rail, Letterature d’America, and Passages de Paris.

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Misplaced Necessities: A Reply to Slavoj Žižek

Raphael F. Alvarenga, June 2, 2026

Tracing how Žižek’s own crisis diagnostics increasingly lead toward a politics of institutional preservation and securitarian mediation, Raphael F. Alvarenga argues instead that universality emerges through political struggle, institutional transformation, and class recomposition across difference. Read Article.

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Going Awry: Žižek’s Misfires in Immigration and Radical Politics

Raphael F. Alvarenga, March 18, 2026

Raphael F. Alvarenga contends that Žižek’s post-2015 approach to migration, while retaining the language of radical politics, embraces a managerial logic of border control that blunts the universalist and emancipatory thrust of his earlier theory. Read Article.