Soberanía política e imaginación cultural en tiempos coolture

Abstract

The society of the 21st century has changed from an enlightened and critical modern culture to an entertaining and flowing coolture in which the idea of the world is concretized in navigating the digital networks and consuming happiness. In this coolture, international cooperation is privatized and made between individuals and globalized companies, relying on new era and charity without state intervention or politics. And for this new cooperation system be possible, communication and digital media become the engine of development and creation of value. However, this coolness does not exhaust the social imagination and powerful alternatives emerge from the south, such as the cultures of good living based on Andean ancestry or the movement such as  feminism. In this essay, we start by describing our new scenario of cooperation based on private foundations, in a communication coolture and diffuse identity networks, to then go on to problematize the concepts of cooperation and development, and end up proposing that cooperation, communication and development require and demand intercultural dialogue as a fundamental criterion to be able to imagine a different, more diverse and more solidary society.