[1] He simultaneously studied philosophy at the University of São Paulo and advertising at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM).

[2] His doctoral dissertation, titled The Passion of the Negative: Modes of Subjectivation and Dialectics in Lacanian Clinic, was published in 2006 by Editora UNESP and translated into French in 2010 (Georg Olms Verlag).

Alongside Christian Dunker and Nelson da Silva Jr., he founded and coordinates the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis at USP (Latesfip-USP).

[13] In his works, he proposes a reinterpretation of the dialectical tradition (especially Hegel, Marx, and Adorno) through the lens of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, alongside a reformulation of classic Marxist categories such as fetishism, critique, and recognition.

In his view, hegemonic theories of recognition (such as those presented by Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor) falter by relying on a deeply normative anthropology that ultimately naturalizes the identity-based assumptions of modern individuality.

The incorporation of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic reflection, with its notion of the decentered subject and its understanding of the productivity of experiences of negativity and helplessness, emerges as a way to provide a radically different framework for inscribing recognition demands.

Wherever there is implication in an event with its force of depersonalization and impersonality (paradoxically drawing on themes from Deleuze and French post-structuralism), there will always be a subject, however larval it may appear.

He has also published contributions to the philosophy of music, cultural criticism, and psychoanalytic theory, as well as written the introduction to the Brazilian translations of works by contemporary philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler.

Through Editora Ubu, he coordinates the Coleção Explosante (Explosive Collection), which has published books by Alain Badiou, Carlos Marighella, and Frantz Fanon.