This book is based in my doctoral thesis, presented in Sociology Department of University of Brasília, Brazil. I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Michelangelo Trigueiro, and all the department colleagues for the discussions that contributed to this research. Thanks, also, to the professors who participated in the dissertation defence: Cesar Bolaño, Fernanda Sobral and Christiana Freitas. I thank Professor Francisco Louçã, who worked as an advisor during my visiting researcher period in 2017 in the Superior Institute of Economy and Management in Lisbon, Portugal. I thank the Sociology Department for nominating the thesis for the Capes Award, the main post-graduate prize for Brazilian scholarly works, and for the University of Brasília thesis award.
I would like to thank Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho for the invitation to publish in this book series. I would also like to thank Professor David Fasenfest for all the support and orientation during the preparation process. Finally, I would like to thank my partner, Raisa Pina, my family, Katia, Flavio and Leo, and all the friends who helped me get here. Special thanks go to my intellectual and lifelong friend, Helena Martins, for all the dialogue about the present and future of capitalism, information and communication, and to Bia Barbosa, Marcos Urupá and Renata Maffezoli for their friendship and support during our mutual intellectual and political journeys.