ABSTRACT
We live in a time of paradox and perplexity revealed in the most diverse spheres, from the economic to the political, from the cultural to the environmental. For instance, culturalist speeches – and practices – overstate the ‘identity vector’ in understanding and/or in the very production of the main contemporary dilemmas, while others, sometimes with economistic overtones, diffuse the idea of a widespread capitalist (neo)liberalism (at least prior to the current financial crisis), as if we had no other choice but to accept an inexorable globalized market-cultural homogenization.
