A Conservative Revolution of the Intellectuals (Brazil/2002-2016)

Abstract

Since 2002, a market of reactions to PT’s presidential administrations has been established, through the conventional media merged with the ultra-contemporary and the social production of hybrid intellectuals: they are journalists-teachers and teachers- journalists. This article addresses the dynamics of the exchanges established among the agents in this market. The focus will be on Olavo de Carvalho; Demétrio Magnoli; Marco Antonio Villa; Reinaldo Azevedo; Luiz Felipe Pondé; Rodrigo Constantino; Leandro Karnal. The analysis will be developed in three movements: it will present the classifications, the frameworks and some demands that they have received from opponents, contractors and clients. In order to characterize the principle that generates its political and cultural positions, the article will then carry out the sociogenesis of space and agents resulting from the structuring of the national education and research system as well as the cultural industry since the 1970s . Finally, it will discuss the sociological framework adopted.