The Unnamable Present

The Unnamable Present
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9780141988023
ISBN-13 : 0141988029
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Book Synopsis The Unnamable Present by : Roberto Calasso

Download or read book The Unnamable Present written by Roberto Calasso and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.

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