The Unnamable Present
Author: Calasso, Roberto
ISBN: 9780141988016
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day.
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: 9780141988016
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day.
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.
