The unnamable present
Calasso, Roberto
The unnamable present - London Allen Lane 2019 - 193 p. Includes bibliographical references and index
A strikingly original and provocative vision of our times, from from one of Europe's pre-eminent writers.
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.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-unnamable-present-9780241344637
9780241344637
Social change
Social evolution
Civilization - Modern
Intellectual life
Calasso, Roberto - Translations into English
909.82 / C2U6
The unnamable present - London Allen Lane 2019 - 193 p. Includes bibliographical references and index
A strikingly original and provocative vision of our times, from from one of Europe's pre-eminent writers.
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.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-unnamable-present-9780241344637
9780241344637
Social change
Social evolution
Civilization - Modern
Intellectual life
Calasso, Roberto - Translations into English
909.82 / C2U6