“In These Great Times” is the topic of the first edition file, published in March 2018. This topic unfolds from the quote of a famous text of the Viennese writer of early XX century, Karl Kraus. This "great times" gathers a number of texts that help think our present in political, social, ecological terms, etc. Contributors to this file are the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito (on bio-politics and post-democracy), the French philosopher Frédéric Neyrat (on matters of political ecology, Marx and the Anthropocene), Pedro Feijó (on gender issues), and the Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and philosopher Déborah Danowski are interviewed.

The first edition also includes a grand interview to the professor, art critique, media theoretician and philosopher Boris Groys, and a portfolio of the artist Lourdes Castro. Amongst other contents, we also highlight the “Diagonal” section, which a propos the Universal Basic Income, confronts André Barata, philosopher and professor, and George Zarkadakis, novelist, playwright and scientist.