The resignification of the future: a reconceptualization of the concept of equality

Abstract

The term “resignification” leads us to a conceptualization that involves an act of granting a new meaning or, of a change of interpretive meaning, to actions, contexts, and experiences. This means that the resignification supposes to confer a value, or a meaning different from the one used to the circumstances to which it is applied. Thus, giving new meaning to experiences consists in assigning another meaning to them, and it should be added that assigning a new meaning to lived experiences is the end of a process that is carried out from another perspective. Giving new meaning, then, is fundamental for the transformation of the perception of the lived contexts themselves and their implications. The punctual and discontinuous moments of the assumed experience of the «moments of being» are transformed, to dignify them or, on the contrary, to devalue them. In this work, certain future projections are analyzed, which are considered not only as possible, but also as desirable. It is about seeing if the promised futures are such or if they continue to be a part of a present of inequalities.