Dr. Mariana Caldas is a researcher and coordinator at the Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO) as part of the PostDoc Funding 2025+ Programme. She is currently developing the project “Aesthetic Orders: crisis, judgment, and the visual grammar of conceptual change in world politics.” Her research centres aesthetic narratives of violence and conflict in late modernity, with particular interest in art, lived experience, continental philosophy, critical security studies, and critical theory.
