The Great Wave

  • ISBN #9780008706500
  • Michiko Kakutani
  • Paperback
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The Great Wave

  • ISBN #9780008706500
  • Michiko Kakutani
  • Paperback
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As people lose their faith in old institutions and elites, radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo.
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  • An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the author of The Death of Truth 'A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world' Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger. As people lose their faith in old institutions and elites, radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo. This is the time of the outsider - the protester, the populist, the hacker. Some of these outsiders have sown chaos, like Donald Trump, and others have provided inspirational leadership, like Volodymyr Zelensky. But all have grasped this precarious moment to make something new. Writing with a critic's incisive understanding of cultural trends, Michiko Kakutani outlines the consequences of these new asymmetries of power, and looks back to similar hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages to the aftermath of the Second World War, to find a way forward. For there is, Kakutani argues, always the promise of transformation in times of turmoil. We can surrender to the waters, give in to the gathering chaos, or we can use the wave's momentum to propel us into a more stable and sustainable future.
    • Format: Paperback / softback
    • Publication Date: 03/04/2024
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Country of Origin: United Kingdom
    • Pages: 256
    • Dimensions (mm): 216x135x22mm
    • Weight: 420g
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    An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the author of The Death of Truth 'A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world' Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger. As people lose their faith in old institutions and elites, radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo. This is the time of the outsider - the protester, the populist, the hacker. Some of these outsiders have sown chaos, like Donald Trump, and others have provided inspirational leadership, like Volodymyr Zelensky. But all have grasped this precarious moment to make something new. Writing with a critic's incisive understanding of cultural trends, Michiko Kakutani outlines the consequences of these new asymmetries of power, and looks back to similar hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages to the aftermath of the Second World War, to find a way forward. For there is, Kakutani argues, always the promise of transformation in times of turmoil. We can surrender to the waters, give in to the gathering chaos, or we can use the wave's momentum to propel us into a more stable and sustainable future.
    • Format: Paperback / softback
    • Publication Date: 03/04/2024
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Country of Origin: United Kingdom
    • Pages: 256
    • Dimensions (mm): 216x135x22mm
    • Weight: 420g
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