ABSTRACT
We call Transmodernity the paradigm that allows us to think the present. For this it is necessary to distinguish it from what Modernity and Postmodernity have meant. Our time is not defined by the prefix ‘post’ but by the prefix ‘trans’. Transmodernity, however equivocal interpretations exist, is not confined to a postcolonial discourse, neither non-colonial, nor multicultural, nor transpersonal, nor does it pretend to be a happy goal that bridges the errors of history. In its descriptive aspect it proposes to analyze the processes of transformation of the current culture, technoeuphoric and at the same time immersed in deep economic and geopolitical crises. From a vital point of view, it tries to trace ways of transgression, in order to transcend the closures in which the new Great Fact of Globalization intends to lock us in. I distinguish narratives of the celebration, which reiterate an accepted but supposedly novel topic, from the narratives of the limit or from the fracture that they struggle to think and show what has not yet been conceptualized, to say what has yet to be named. Only from the latter will we be able to outline paths towards a fuller life, a more innovative art, and a more liveable social sphere.
