The Curse of Satan

The Foam of Our Days. The last book, the material for which was personally selected by Umberto Eco, one of the most significant and influential writers, philosophers, and scholars of the 20th century, who passed away in 2016. «The Curse of Satan» is a collection of the best articles by Umberto Eco, published from 2000 to 2015 in the magazine L’Espresso. The reasons for these texts are very diverse, from hacker attacks on the Internet and leaked information about voter bribery to the centenary of the «Futurism Manifesto» and the latest and outrageously expensive electronic device that disgustingly projected photographs during a lecture. Eco has the remarkable gift of seeing global social, political, and cultural shifts in ordinary everyday incidents and explaining the most complex philosophical concepts in simple language with straightforward examples. Should we fear the loss of privacy due to the development of social networks? Where can we read the funniest Jewish jokes? How has the mobile phone become a natural extension of the physical «I»? Was Agamemnon worse than Bush? Is it permissible to joke about the sacred? Why is Jules Verne better than Emilio Salgari? How to choose a president and how to protect oneself from the Templars? This book will allow you to view the modern «liquid society» from an unexpected angle.