HENRIQUE DE ALMEIDA VALLE

Based on the analysis developed by Charles Prusik (2020) in Adorno and Neoliberalism, the present research aims to show that Adorno's diagnosis captures historical lines of force that, latent in his time, would erupt two years after his death, forming the initial edges of the "catastrophic course of the world" (Arantes, 2015 p.254). By developing a "practice of society as a whole, that is, a practice referred to structurally", Adorno's social theory (2008a, p. 97), thematizing the social nexus as a tension between structural tendencies and constellations of power, finds in the crisis of the exploitation of living labor and the accumulation of surplus value the economic tendency that expresses the exhaustion of the logical limits of capitalism.