The Unnamable Present

A meditation on the rise of nationalism and totalitarianism in the contemporary world, by the author of The Ruin of Kasch . The ninth part of Roberto Calasso’s masterwork, The Unnamable Present , is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch . But while Kasch is an enlightened exploration of modernity, The Unnamable Present propels us into the twenty first century. Tourists, terrorists, secularists, fundamentalists, hackers, transhumanists, algorithmicians: these are all