In his new book (Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation, available from ingramspark.org for $12, or Amazon, $15) João argues that Capital maintains itself by, among other means, replacing the People’s consciousness of the past and vision of a better future with a constant, debilitating spectacle of the present. In his talk João will summarize his findings on this issue and discuss related matters relevant to the revolutionary struggle.
He last spoke at the ICSS Marxist Forum in October 2024 on the subject of capitalist intellectual property. Videos of that event can be found on YouTube, Rumble and at icssmarx.org and serve, along with his new book, as a valuable introduction to the current session.
Dr. João Romeiro Hermeto is a Brazilian-Italian scholar. He studied engineering and then economics at the Universidade de São Paulo. During the upheavals of the financial crisis, he worked with derivatives credit risk management for an investment bank from 2007 to 2011 and subsequently founded a company that produced and promoted art and culture. In 2013, he emigrated to Germany, studied philosophy and culture. He is currently a visiting scholar in Italy. His research focuses on Marxism and the ontology of the social being, on the critique of political economy, and on the critique of knowledge production – ideology and intellectual property. He is the author of four books: Lukács’ Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Wandels (2020), The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism (2024), The Privatisation of Knowledge (2025), and Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation (2025).
