More than a decade has passed since the 2008 crisis cracked the world that emerged after the Second World War. Since then, efforts to clarify this convulsive and apparently unintelligible horizon continue to yield scant results. The disorientation is spreading in the political and economic spheres in the face of the threats imposed by an environment characterized by serious environmental tensions, by the challenge of robotization and computerization and artificial intelligence, by migratory flows, by global warming, by the irruption of the extreme right or the growing inequality and global injustice. All the data point to a "systemic exhaustion" whose most obvious symptom is the fatigue that capitalism seems to show for more than a decade.
In this context, it is extremely optimistic to take for granted cultural, political and civilizational achievements that were believed to have been consolidated until recently, which is why it is worth radically rethinking assumptions (economic, ecological, geopolitical, cultural, etc.) for the coming decades. pedagogical) assumed uncritically as the background of our lives. Because even if, as many suspect, we are witnessing the dawn of a completely different system from the one we knew, there is no guarantee that what ultimately triumphs will be more like our political dreams than our nightmares. The fascinating thing about the crossroads we face is that we know that the past is behind us forever and will not return, but we are not yet able to glimpse what will replace it.