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Questa è una delle poche volte in cui mi rammarico di non avere un kindle: da giorni leggo un po' ovunque sul web americano ottimi pareri su Gods without men, ultimo libro di Hari Kunzru, e ora ci si mette anche Douglas Coupland sul New York Times, a dirmi che devo assolutamente leggerlo il prima possibile (e su amazon.it non c'è). E nel farlo, ci infila in mezzo una delle sue riflessioni couplandiane: 

One thing that struck me about the 9/11 footage shown during last year’s anniversary was that in 2001, the people on New York City’s sidewalks had no smartphones with which to record the events of the day. History may well look back on 9/11 as the world’s last underdocumented mega-event. But aside from the absence of phone cameras, the people and streets of September 2001 looked pretty much identical to those of September 2011: the clothes, the hair, the cars. I mention this because it has been only in the past decade that we appear to have entered an aura-free universe in which all eras coexist at once — a state of possibly permanent atemporality given to us courtesy of the Internet. No particular era now dominates. We live in a post-era era without forms of its own powerful enough to brand the times. The zeitgeist of 2012 is that we have a lot of zeit but not much geist. I can’t believe I just wrote that last sentence, but it’s true; there is something psychically sparse about the present era, and artists of all stripes are responding with fresh strategies. [#]