TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calasso, Roberto 
AU  - Dixon, Richard
TI  - The unnamable present
SN  - 9780241344637
U1  - 909.82 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London 
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Social change
KW  - Social evolution
KW  - Civilization - Modern
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Calasso, Roberto - Translations into English
N2  - 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
ER  -