# 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
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-802-3
- Published: 2019-04-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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. 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.