{"product_id":"the-unnamable-present-9781250251213","title":"The Unnamable Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ninth part of Roberto Calasso's work in progress, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e, is closely connected with themes of the first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of Kasch\u003c\/i\u003e (originally published in 1983, and recently reissued by FSG in a new translation). But while \u003ci\u003eKasch\u003c\/i\u003e is an enlightened exploration of modernity, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e propels us into the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTourists, terrorists, secularists, fundamentalists, hackers, transhumanists, algorithmicians: these are all tribes that inhabit the unnamable present and act on its nervous system. This is a world that seems to have no living past, but was foreshadowed in the period between 1933 and 1945, when everything appeared bent on self-annihilation. \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening today in all societies, which makes so many previous names either inadequate or misleading or a parody of what they used to mean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated with sensitivity by Calasso's longtime translator, Richard Dixon, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e is a strikingly original and provocative vision of our times, from the writer \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e called \"a literary institution of one.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250251213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Roberto Calasso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648724529308,"sku":"9781250251213","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d279d03f-6e46-46f6-b15a-84a2227e31fd.jpg?v=1603870847","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-unnamable-present-9781250251213","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}