The crisis of the historical imagination. Climate transformations, subversive memories and alternative futures

Abstract

Accelerated climate change produces disruptive repercussions on the way we experience the historical process. The regime of historicity that seems to permeate discourses and semantics about these transformations holds us to the narrow perspective of a sterile present. How can we emancipate ourselves from this disposition that tremendously limits our ability to re-imagine ourselves, our economic behaviour, our models of political organization? The article intends to explore these ideas, dialoguing with an illustrious predecessor – Paul Valéry – and assessing the possible horizons opened up by this critical juncture.