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The human age and the crisis of history: brief commentary on the collapse of modernization in the theories of Jameson and Arantes

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2023: Número especial. El lugar de la cultura en las crisis y transformaciones sociales y políticas en la América Latina del siglo XXI. Construyendo saberes latinoamericanos e interdisciplinarios desde los estudios doctorales
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73074

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A social, political and economic crisis has been the keynote of social experiences in Latin America and around the world. Authoritarian leaders and wars promise to sustain and deepen the regime of exploitation of man over man and of domination and destruction of nature, which characterizes the Anthropocene - or, in the language of Marxist philosophy, the Capitalocene -, without any collective horizons and radicals capable of promoting projects for the transformation of society on a large scale. The postmodern social situation, as Fredric Jameson famously observed, only allows the collective imagination to formulate images of planetary devastation and the Apocalypse itself as alternatives to the all-powerful reality of the capitalist mode of production. new time in the world”, characterized by “presentism”, that is, by the exhaustion of perspectives and the possibility of modifying human reality, which had characterized the revolutionary period of bourgeois society from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The Brazilian and Latin American scenario suggests to the Brazilian philosopher an even more acute crisis of historical references, as we lose contact both with the origins and original traditions and with the bourgeois dreams of an economic and industrial development concurrent with the levels of the central countries.

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Paulo Arantes, crisis, postmodernity, presenteeism, New World Time

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Theodoro Amorim, T. E. de J. (2023). The human age and the crisis of history: brief commentary on the collapse of modernization in the theories of Jameson and Arantes. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 315–334. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73074
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