The unnamable present

By:

Calasso, Roberto

Contributor(s):

Dixon, Richard [Translator]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Allen Lane 2019 London Description: 193 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:

9780241344637

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

909.82 C2U6

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad General Stacks	Non-fiction	909.82 C2U6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		199946

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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

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