Apuntes en torno a tiempos de inflexión histórica y cambio epocal, ¿leer la realidad en clave distópica?

We live in times of uncertainty and perplexity, not only because the optimisticpredictions post-1989 have crumbled, but also because ours is now a moment of historicalinflection in which the foundations and coordinates that have built and organized the political,social, and cultural life of the West over the past centuries have been fractured. At the same time,we are facing a new civilizational project that we have yet to decipher, one that finds in thescientific and technological revolution one of its fundamental pillars. In this context, what is thecurrent scope of the analytical and conceptual parameters of social thought, given a reality thatstill eludes definition? Are the traditional theoretical languages of Sociology no longersufficient? Are not cinema, television series, and indeed literature the best repositories of"sociological imagination"? It is not by chance, then, that dystopian fictions have flourished inliterature, but also in the visual arts, in a register certainly different from that of the socialsciences, yet offering with notable lucidity and sharpness a guiding, but also accurate anddisturbing, cartography to navigate the bewildering and tumultuous seas of a contemporaryworld whose future horizon is still nebulous.