Omnia habentes, nihil possidentes: la paradoja moderna de la cultura: desde Simmel y Freud hasta Francisco y el capitalismo digital

This article reconstructs a critical genealogy of contemporary cultural malaise, based on the paradox formulated by Georg Simmel in 1908: omnia habentes, nihil possidentes (“having everything, possessing nothing”). Through dialogue with Freud, Rosa, Han, and Pope Francis, it examines how the expansion of culture in modernity (and in its contemporary digital form) has led to new modes of subjective dispossession. Against the assumption that abundance ensures appropriation, it argues that excess access can intensify fragmentation, weakening the bond with meaning. The figure of Francis is recovered as a countermodel in the face of cultural exhaustion. The proposal brings together philosophy, critical theory, and an ethics of meaning as possible paths toward a newly habitable culture.