History Has Begun

Why it’s on the list: Maçães’s argument that America is not in decline but in the middle of becoming something else — no longer the leader of a Western order it half-invented, and developing a civilisation of its own whose relation to reality is mediated rather than direct. The counter-reading to every American-decline book.

Where I saw it: Kyle pasted the cover into the note — the edition with the added chapter on America and the coronavirus. The cover image is archived in the repo at wiki/attachments/history-has-begun/cover.png.

Connections

• American Decline — the thesis this book is written against.
• Historical Futurism · People Over Politics — the portfolio ideas this sits across.
• In the Shadows of the American Century — also saved in this note, and the straight decline argument to read against it.