Abstract

FAZIO VENGOA, Hugo. The sixties and their current legacy. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2009, n.33, pp.16-28. ISSN 0123-885X.

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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