New media now constitute one of the foundational structures of the bipolar Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft system in which every contemporary individual lives and asserts their public identity. Their impact, like that of any new “social machine”, has produced profound and significant consequences for the dynamics of the modern world, initiating a process that is far from over and remains in full, tumultuous evolution.

In response to this phenomenon, a debate has emerged which, as often happens in such contexts, is divided between those who perceive the potential and opportunities for improvement offered by new media and those who, on the contrary, emphasize their insidious drifts and the various dangers they pose to humanity.

The aim of this issue is to provide a comprehensive overview of new media, analyzing the key milestones that have shaped their development and delving into the social and cultural impacts they have already had, while placing particular emphasis on the prospects and challenges they may present in the future.

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Between the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most debated issues in Argentine literature concerned how to manage Borges’s cultural legacy and in particular how to relate to the omnipresence of his model. The poetics that emerged then as a generational response to that tension are still an unsurpassed horizon today for what concerns experimentation and originality. In those years, in fact, an entire generation of writers opposed to opportunistically exploiting the great international success of Latin American literature, launched two challenges of no small importance: the first was to the cultural tradition in which they had been trained; the second to the commercial implications of their works, engaging in projects whose declared aim was to avoid any mechanism of “capture” of the market.

Starting from the concept of “mutinous literature”, a concept proposed by Libertella and reworked by one of the protagonists of that generation, Luis Gusmán, in this issue of “Pagine Inattuali” four leading figures of Argentine literature of the late twentieth century will be analysed, complementary figures and, at the same time time, contrasting, namely Ricardo Piglia, Héctor Libertella, Leónidas Lamborghini and Alberto Laiseca. Therefore, after a Gusmán interview, essays by Agustín Conde De Boeck, Lorenzo Mari, Annabella Canneddu, Ana Gallego Cuiñas and Marcella Solinas will follow. The issue will conclude with some extracts from narrative works by authors such as Gusmán, Laiseca, Piglia, Libertella and Lamborghini.

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Utopia is one of the most complex and ancient concepts that humanity has produced. Utopia is used in many and different contexts such as politics, religion, social issues and economic issues, while its intellectual production takes place through literature or scientific essays.

On the other hand, the definition of a theoretical model, beyond its actual realization, assumes the function of a stimulus for the improvement of the contexts in which it develops. For this reason, probably, utopia (and dystopia in the same way) has never suffered from those forms of decadence of interest that constructs of this type often encounter. In this sense, each epoch, it can be said, has its utopian visions, representative of the perspectives and limits of the time that gave birth to them. Reflect about utopia means being able to study a certain social phenomenon from a privileged point of view, halfway between the critique of the present and the planning of a future that is not necessarily near. It means having the possibility of being at a crossroads where critical issues and aspirations for renewal are confronted. It even means affirming thoughts and actions that may not be implemented, thus inoculating that awareness of being bound to a destiny of persistent instability and precariousness.

Against the background of these brief considerations, the new issue of "Pagine Inattuali" tries to offer some research ideas through the interview with Sossio Giametta and the contributions of Alberto Campo, Francesco Muzzioli, Didier Contadini, Tommaso Ariemma, Roberto Evangelista, Gennaro Varriale and Mario Magallón Anaya.

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The eighth issue of "Pagine Inattuali" collects the contributions of authors and researchers of different backgrounds from European and Latin American universities. The volume aims to reflect on the meaning and function of the literary work in the Iberian and Ibero-American world with the intention of exploring its declinations and implications in both the philosophical and literary fields. The presumed specificity of the Spanish "case", and more generally of the Latin American cultural basin, in fact shows the evidence of a different link between philosophy and literature, which requires us to problematize both the dominance of each of these disciplinary fields and their interaction and interdependence. This allows us to rethink categories of thought and declinations of literary works from a perspective that is not simply interdisciplinary, but rather "transdisciplinary", which has the merit of showing how the relationship between literature and philosophy is to be considered an always open and intimately connected question, to beyond specific territorial and cultural boundaries, to the process of sectoralisation and hyper-specialisation of knowledge. In this sense, this volume nevertheless has the objective of probing the question of identity while examining, at the same time, alternative models of rationality.

Consecrating this research path is one of the most recognized voices in the panorama of contemporary Spanish poetry, Clara Janés. The issue, in fact, opens with an interview with the famous writer and translator, called to testify to that irreducible spiritual "heterodoxy" that characterizes the Iberian peninsula. In a sort of counterpoint, the nine essays that make up the volume seem to want to introduce us not so much to a truth on the topic, but rather to the "life of truth" - to use Enzo Paci's happy formula - as it unfolds in the philosophical and literary in the Iberian and Ibero-American context. The contributions address the following themes: the literary field and minor literature in transatlantic poetry (Calabrian); matter and nothingness in a discussion on the theme of creation between Zambrano, Valente and Chillida (Domínguez Romero); Genesis and Apocalypses in Latin American literature (Galindo Ayala); the metaphor of the castle in María Zambrano between Teresa of Avila and Franz Kafka (Grigoletto); the reading of Plato's condemnation of poetry in the reflections of María Zambrano and Eugenio Trías (Rivera); travel literature as an exploration of the Other in the Crónicas de Indias (by the Russian); the articulation between trauma, sound and word in Não falei by Beatriz Bracher (Scaramucci); Cesário Verde as Portuguese flâneur (Soffritti); the declinations of writing in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Trapanese / Piqueras Flores).

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For more than five centuries, Latin America has lived its culture influenced by its relationship with the West.  The question cannot be simplistically referred to the slave-master scheme, since over time the actors involved have changed, several times, not only position, but also “meaning”. Latin American culture has in fact taken up, reinvented and overturned the stimuli, currents and ideas that came (and were often imposed) from the salons and academies of European and American cities. So today, on the centenary of Leopoldo Zea's birth, one can finally answer in the affirmative to the famous and provocative question, ¿Existe una philosophía en nuestra América?, which Augusto Salazar Bondy threw against the intelligentsia of his country in 1968.

Through the contributions of scholars such as Mauricio Beuchot, Anna Boccuti, Giuseppe Cacciatore, Horacio Cerutti Guldberg, Enrique Dussel, Serge Latouche, Mario Magallón Anaya and Blas Matamoro, the first issue of Pagine Inattuali, moving between literary suggestions and philosophical analyzes, reflects on these themes and intends to offer an insight into that debate that has characterized the Latin American continent for decades.

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