Introduction

Abstract

What happens when worlds fade, grow cold, or simply disappear? How can we recognize the other worlds that are beginning to make their presence known, no less intensely, but certainly with less precise contours? These questions, without defined forms and without my knowing precisely the kinds of experiences they referred to, were constantly with me throughout the 1990s. It became increasingly clear that we were experiencing a series of transformations for which a sufficient or suitable conceptual arsenal did not yet exist. In addition to the profound turn our lives took under the neoliberal Peronist government of those years (under which the hegemony currently enjoyed by the same party was established), we experienced a series of global political, economic, and technological transformations that affected the world of labor, the public sphere, and private and intimate life. These changes were not abstract: they managed to shake the mainstays of custom and daily life.