Nostalgies for the future

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Monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes

284 Avinguda de la Constitució 46019 Valencia Spain

Vicent Andrés Estellés says “I long for a time that is yet to come”. Is it possible to yearn for the future? We get different voices from our literary scene to talk about the promises and hopes for the future that we can expect in these times. The discourse of nostalgia becomes habitual in a present in which hopes of social advancement seem dashed, in which it seems that we replicate the precariousness of the generation of our mothers and grandmothers passed through a technological and academic filter. To all this, we can add new ingredients such as the climate crisis, runaway neoliberalism and individualism that walks accompanied by loneliness and depression. Collective narratives have run out and, in this scenario, it seems difficult to imagine new possible worlds, to dream of utopias. Where are the illusions in the 21st century? Is it possible to project the emotional force of nostalgia into the future and turn it into transformative energy?

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