# The Unnamable Present

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- Book: [The Unnamable Present](https://www.bookquiver.com/roberto-calasso/the-unnamable-present) ([The Unnamable Present.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roberto-calasso/the-unnamable-present.md))
- Authors: [Roberto Calasso](https://www.bookquiver.com/roberto-calasso)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-801-6
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2020-04-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.