PART I. Macondo or death, but not exactly: the case of unrequited modernity that does not go away -- Traditionalism and modernity in Latin American culture / José Joaquín Brunner -- Modernity and postmodernity in the periphery ; Communications: decentering modernity / Jesús Martín Barbero -- PART II. Changing identities, or "Where do we come from" and "Where are we going?" -- Challenges of postmodernity and globalization: multiple or fragmented identities? / Fernando Ainsa -- Postmodernism and Latin American identity / Jorge Larraín -- Latin American identity, dramatized / PART III. Changing realities, politics, arts: strategies of/for resistance -- Autochthonous cultures and the global market / Mario Roberto Morales -- Post-cities and politics: new urban movements in the two Americas / Armando Silva -- Modern and postmodern aesthetics in contemporary Argentine theatre (1985-1997) / Osvaldo Pelletieri -- Polarized modernity: Latin America at the postmodern juncture / Raúl Bueno -- Latin American writer in these postmodern times / Abelardo Castillo -- PART IV. Changing cultural dossier: some classic texts from the 1990s -- Variations on postmodernity, or, what does the Latin American postboom mean? / Mempo Giardinelli -- Latin America and postmodernity / Nelly Richards -- Critique of global philosophy, five hundred years later / Rafael Ángel Herra -- Cultural topologies / Daniel Altamiranda, Hernán Thomas