Calasso, Roberto  <br/><br/>
The unnamable present 

 - London   Allen Lane  2019 
 - 193 p.  Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/> A strikingly original and provocative vision of our times, from from one of Europe's pre-eminent writers.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-unnamable-present-9780241344637 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780241344637 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social change<br/>Social evolution<br/>Civilization - Modern<br/>Intellectual life<br/>Calasso, Roberto - Translations into English
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.82  / C2U6