Legends, plots and alternative realities: narratives about contemporary reality and regimes of knowledge

The article seeks to analyze the constitution of new "regimes of truth", observing a series of phenomena that result, in large part, from processes linked to modernization, considering, also, the changes that make up our contemporaneity. We seek to understand how regimes of truth are established, based on the hypothesis that they are systems of beliefs that, consolidated in time, suffer constant mutation processes. Methodology: Bibliographical study. Narratives are linked to the ways of interpreting reality, allowing the recognition of identities; they are a set of cognitive procedures which generate individual and shared knowledge, making such knowledge objective, real and credible.