Nathan Gardels Quote

This emergent world appears to us as a wholly unfamiliar rupture from patterns of the past that could frame a reassuring narrative going forward. Philosophers describe the new territory of the future as plastic or liquid, shapelessly shifting as each disruptive innovation or abandoned certitude washes away whatever fleeting sense of meaning was only just embraced. A kind of foreboding of the times that have not yet arrived, a wariness about what’s next, settles in. Novelists such as Jonathan Franzen see a perpetual anxiety gripping society.6 Similarly, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, citing Wordsworth, speaks of a strangeness in my mind, the sense that I am not of this hour nor of this place.7

Nathan Gardels

This emergent world appears to us as a wholly unfamiliar rupture from patterns of the past that could frame a reassuring narrative going forward. Philosophers describe the new territory of the future as plastic or liquid, shapelessly shifting as each disruptive innovation or abandoned certitude washes away whatever fleeting sense of meaning was only just embraced. A kind of foreboding of the times that have not yet arrived, a wariness about what’s next, settles in. Novelists such as Jonathan Franzen see a perpetual anxiety gripping society.6 Similarly, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, citing Wordsworth, speaks of a strangeness in my mind, the sense that I am not of this hour nor of this place.7

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About Nathan Gardels

Nathan Gardels (born December 22, 1952) is an American journalist who is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. He previously served as editor-in-chief of The WorldPost, a partnership with The Washington Post, as well as editor-in-chief of Global Viewpoint Network and Nobel Laureates Plus, both services of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media). From 1985 to 2014 he also was editor of New Perspectives Quarterly, the journal of social and political thought published by Blackwell/Oxford.