Editorial Rizzoli
Lugar de edición
Milano, Italia
Fecha de edición enero 2014 · Edición nº 1
Idioma español
Traducción de Sartarelli, Stephen
EAN 9780847842919
164 páginas
Libro
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In this insightful book, which reads as an episodic essay, Baricco (Emmaus) addresses the widespread fear at least among intellectuals and academics that we are facing a "cultural apocalypse, " that civilized culture is being sacked by "predators with no culture or history." These are his titular "barbarians." Baricco begins by discussing three specific areas in which he sees the effects of this so-called apocalypse: "Hollywood wine, " with its appealing color and lack of complexity; soccer with a tendency toward "middlingness, " and a book publishing industry driven by "market logic." But, he says and herein lays the main argument of his book these are not, in fact, irrational, culturally destructive changes. Rather, these changes evidence a "mutation, " "a sort of mental and architectural restructuring" that results from a shifting cultural landscape dominated by forces such as Google. Baricco characterizes this mutation as a fundamental change in the "idea of what constitutes experience" and how meaning is made. Though often theoretical, Barrico is an excellent guide and presents each short installment" in a highly conversational, op-ed style. Ultimately the book is an optimistic defense for this mutation, a mutation "that concerns everyone, without exception."
x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Alessandro Bariccox{0026}lt;/strong (Turín, 1958), además de numerosos ensayos y artículos, es autor de las novelas x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Tierras de cristal x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Selezione Campiello y Prix Médicis Étranger), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Océano marx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Viareggio), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Seda, City, Sin sangre, Esta historia, Emaús, Mr Gwyn, Tres veces al amanecerx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La Esposa joven,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong publicadas en Anagrama, al igual que la majestuosa reescritura de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Homero, Ilíada,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong el monólogo teatral x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Novecentox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y los ensayos x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Next. Sobre la globalización y el mundo que viene,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Los bárbaros. Ensayo sobre la mutación,The Game, Una cierta idea de mundo, Lo que estábamos buscandox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong ,x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El nuevo Barnumx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong yx{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La vía de la narraciónx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong . Dirige, además, la Scuola Holden de Turín.x{0026}lt;/p
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