The text contemplates the challenges of the experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, emphasizing the peculiar character of the First World War as a milestone of its inflection. Following the terms that Walter Benjamin uses in Experience and poverty (1933), the resignification of the concept of “barbarism” is questioned as a symptom of contemporary inexperience in the face of the dilemmas of diversity in the globalized world. The outline of an ethics of sense is suggested in the midst of such adversity
