Revista de Estudios Sociales

rev. estud. soc. | eISSN 1900-5180 | ISSN 0123-885X

The sixties and their current legacy

No. 33 (2009-08-01)
  • Hugo Fazio Vengoa
    Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
https://doi.org/10.7440/res33.2009.01

Abstract

The present is a condition of time that varies in its length. The contemporary present is an interval of time whose origins date back to the year and events of 1968, a conjuncture that catalyzed a powerful and silent socio-cultural revolution. Some of the main features of this revolution include the beginning of a new modality of capitalism, the emergence of new actors and social movements, the subsumption of clasic modernity within world global modernity, the development of a regime of global and present-focused historiocity, the intensification of globalization, the transformation of the world into a historical category, and the transition towards global history.

Keywords: History of the Present, Historical Present, International Relations, Event, Modernity, Globalization

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