Presentation of the Dossier "Common Worlds"

Abstract

Despite their heterogeneity, all the contributions received for this publication share a common thread. The concept of “common worlds” has here entailed a widespread reflection on the crisis of the humanist paradigm, a crisis that, as we will see, is addressed from different perspectives and methodologies. The texts and images included in this dossier propose new ways of living and coexisting in contemporary culture, acknowledging the impossibility of archiving a vast and multifaceted history, and, conversely, the impossibility of processing accelerated globalization. Within the framework of what we consider here to be this “crisis of the humanist paradigm,” all these texts and images instead present new alternatives for thought and experience: the appreciation of landscape and animality as constitutive dimensions of life and humanity (Francica, Keizman); the legitimization of memory as a sensitive communal fabric that displaces the supremacy of History (Ceresa); and the materiality that complements the purely discursive plane of expression (Donoso). the appreciation of artistic research with its sensitive knowledge that displaces the idea of ​​scientific truth (García); the possibility of building communities beyond national or regional logics (Urzúa; López and Nitschack); digital media (Soto) and trans-idiomatic resistance (Troncoso) as alternatives for decentralization and breaking the national paradigm in art, literature and politics.