Diego Sztulwark is an Argentine Jewish political philosopher, independent scholar, author, and essayist based in Buenos Aires. His intellectual work focuses on contemporary Latin American left-wing micropolitics, social movement theory, and post-dictatorship memory politics, functioning as a core member of independent research initiatives and the radical publishing collective Tinta Limón.
Born and raised in a Jewish family in Argentina, Sztulwark completed his studies in political science and philosophy in Buenos Aires, focusing on the contextual translation of 20th-century European radical philosophy—specifically the works of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Baruch Spinoza—into Latin American social realities.
Throughout his career, Sztulwark has chosen to operate primarily outside traditional, single-institution academic tracks, focusing instead on developing autonomous research networks and alternative pedagogical spaces. He co-founded multiple interdisciplinary theoretical workshops and serves as a key editor for the independent publisher Tinta Limón, which introduces critical texts on global social movements, biopolitics, and decolonial theory. He has authored and co-authored several volumes on radical political thought and the evolution of state violence.
His support for Palestine was also primarily expressed through articles. In one article, he wrote:
The present does not impose a single way of being. One can be contemporary in many ways. Last week, while the Argentine president was visiting the current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, widely considered a war criminal, the philosopher Peter Pal Pelbart circulated a letter from São Paulo addressed to Jews in Brazil, which reads as follows: “Demonstrations against the Israeli government’s policies outside of Israel are immediately labeled anti-Semitic by the Israeli press, and are even used to reinforce the underlying belief that ‘the whole world is against us.’ But when they are carried out by Jews, this accusation cannot be sustained: at most, their participants will be branded as traitors. Perhaps this is the only element of pressure we have left. And if this wave spreads, the alibi that Israel acts in the name and defense of all Jews will collapse!” No, what’s at stake isn’t the survival of the Jewish people—which Israeli policy directly endangers, inflaming antisemitism worldwide—but the survival of the most treacherous, fascist, and corrupt government in that country’s history. And, obviously, the survival of the Palestinian people.