The Unnamable Present

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The Unnamable Present

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4198-801-6

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141988016

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 208

Fecha de publicación: 2020-04-23

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Unnamable Present

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4198-802-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141988023

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 160

Fecha de publicación: 2019-04-09

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Unnamable Present

Roberto Calasso

Primera publicación: 2019-04-09

Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before. Yet once contrasted with the period between 1933 and 1945, when the world made a partially successful attempt at self-annihilation, the new millennium begins to take on an unprecedented form. What emerges is something illusory, ever-shifting and occasionally murderous: the unnamable present. This book, the ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening in societies today, where distant echoes of Auden's The Age of Anxiety give way to something altogether more unsettling.