Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation is João Romeiro Hermeto’s brilliant, approachable theoretical work on the ontology of late capitalism and the social logic of capitalism's self-perpetuation. Written between Berlin and Pavia, this book offers a rigorous analysis of what Hermeto calls “the perpetual present”—a condition in which capitalism reproduces itself through historical amnesia, ideological domination, and aesthetic illusion.

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Across essays on aesthetics, ontology, and political economy, Hermeto traces how capitalism has reconstituted time itself: dissolving the collective capacity for historical transformation and turning social critique into a mirror of its own logic. Combining philosophy, critical theory, and cultural analysis, Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation argues that the apparent eternity of capitalism is not a metaphysical inevitability but a historical illusion—one that can and must be shattered through renewed dialectical critique and revolutionary praxis.