This work is dedicated to reflect about the contemporary in terms of transit, rhythm and proximity. We believe that the main feature of contemporary is a singular amateurism definitely not tied to the usual pejorative sense, afforded by the advent of some artifacts and artifices from nowadays. Seeking to bring different contributions that take a critical position in our thinking, and also tuned with our proposals, our reflection has gone through some fundamental areas of our days, as the debate on the authorship, as well as some of the complexities of the asymmetric intercultural relations. Finally, the choice to approach, within the discursive productions, of a certain idea of childhood as a extremely powerful and recurrent strategy, provides a suggestive glimpse of the contribution of art and science interlaced by an expanded understanding of poetry, that guided our considerations around the politics and ethics in a contemporary setting.