Polycrisis as collapse of the ‘universal and homogeneous state’

Abstract

Globalization has been supposed to expand worldwide in a homogeneous and universal way. Since the 2000s, however, it has produced an enormous amount of social and environmental entropy from which a number of shocks has arisen affecting the entire world. Consequently, the whole economic and psychosocial framework has changed radically. Above all, it has produced the collapse of the global liberal order. The crisis of globalization has started a schismogenetic process that is now causing growing social tensions and international conflicts. The way out from the crisis is foreseen in an epistemological turn encompassing the relational nature of the living.