Jacques Attali

What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, A Brief History of the Future is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. Attali anticipates an unravelling of American hegemony as transnational corporations sever...

Noise is a model of cultural historiography. In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specialised concentration, Noise has much that is of importance to critical theory today. SubStance For Attali, music is not simply a reflection of culture, but a harbinger of change, an anticipatory abstraction of the shape of things...