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Title: Unnamable Present, The
Author: CALASSO ROBERTO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 09/04/2019
Imprint: ALLEN LANE
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9780241344637
Pages: 160