With Ana Flecha Marco, Juan de Salas and Pedro Ángel Sánchez.

Since 9/11, when journalists covering the shocking news, overwhelmed by the magnitude of the event, began repeating like a mantra that we were witnessing a change of era. Looking back twenty-four years later, one could say that it marked the beginning of the decline of liberal democracies, but it didn't signify a change in the course of history at all; quite the contrary.

Since then, the communication strategy of corporations, cultural institutions, and media conglomerates has tended to involve labeling anything as historical in order to lend it an aura of prestige. Is labeling something as historical when it is not at all a sign of our times?