The hypothesis that Reinaldo Laddaga displays in "Estética de la emergencia," a book recently published in Buenos Aires by Adriana Hidalgo, is ambitious and crucial. In his view, we are in the presence of a new "regime of the arts" –the concept belongs to Jacques Ranciere–, that would, on the one hand, bring to a close the esthetic age of art –a period extending from the end of the XVIIIth C. to the decades of the 60s and 70s in the last century–, and, on the other hand, open a new era about which we know little but which would involve fundamentally new forms of production, conceptualization and visibility of artistic practices. A whole constellation of the arts, Laddaga points out, is taking shape while intersecting with modes of eminently immaterial and communicative production, taking place in the work sphere, in political practice, the sciences and in the ways that people and information circulate within a highly fluid globalized economy that is post-national and post-state…