(Sociocultural bases to think (us) in transmodern format)

Abstract

This work is presented as a reflection that seeks to exercise our knowledge about the denomination that it could attribute to our current society with the term Transmodernity. To this end, there are two main theoretical developments that would appear in the late eighties and early nineties: on the one hand, the proposal that, from a Western European vision, is elaborated by Rosa María Rodríguez Magda putting transmodernity as a synthesis between modernity and postmodernity; and on the other, the one developed by Enrique Dussel as part of a philosophical system of liberation, focusing on a decolonial perspective thought from Latin America. In an attempt to link the two visions on transmodernity, I highlight some elements that fluctuate between them in order to broaden the debate that allows us to characterize, even if provisionally and incompletely, an ontology of the current era. From this dialogic position, the discussion allows us to conclude on the need to talk about fluctuating transmodernities based on the impossibility of using a single theoretical model to characterize contemporary societies, mainly due to their complex and heterogeneous character.