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The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Description for The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Paperback. Provides the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and 'mindsource' images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 183 x 112 x 24. Weight in Grams: 194.
Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it The future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains why Fifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture The Medium is the Massage, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that's redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'. The Age of Earthquakes is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and 'mindsource' images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly's striking graphic design imports the surreal, juxtaposed, mashed mannerisms of screen to page. It's like a culturally prescient, all-knowing email to the reader: possibly the best email they will ever read. Welcome to The Age of Earthquakes, a paper portrait of Now, where the Internet hasn't just changed the structure of our brains these past few years, it's also changing the structure of the planet. This is a new history of the world that fits perfectly in your back pocket.
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141979564
SKU
9780141979564
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. He is the author of Ways of Curating and, with Ai Weiwei, of Ai Weiwei Speaks.
Reviews for The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
The Age of Earthquakes seeks to induce paradoxical visions of the contemporary, both ambivalent and critical
V Magazine
I think everyone should read it
Mike Pinnington
Double Negative
Addictive... A fun read. But one that makes you question how you read, why you read and just how much the internet has restructured our brains... It is a book not only inspired by the internet, but seemingly written by the internet. It is as if the internet gained not only artificial self-consciousness but wisdom - and then became your pal
Tod Wodicka
National
I don't know about you but I would very much like a guide to this brave new world
Huck
An abstract representation of how we feel about our digital world
Hello!
It's a fun, visual and easy read. Verdict: In the future all books will be written this way
Sultan Saood Al Qassimi Age of Earthquakes = panic-inducingly addictive
Penny Martin, editor of The Gentlewoman A pocket-sized primer on our blossoming obsolescence
Kate Sutton
Art Forum
Many of us feel like technologies of the future are arriving too slowly, but a new philosophy-cum-modern-self-help book suggests that, in fact, it's dawning on us faster than we ever thought possible
Vice
A philosophical Anarchist Cookbook for the online era, when we are in touch with everyone at once all the time, or like to feel that we are... Like Marshall McLuhan's iconic dictum the medium is the message or the staccato bursts of meaning of George W.S. Trow's essay-book In the Context of No Context, The Age of Earthquakes is an abstract representation of how we feel now about how we are now. It's a book insistently engaged with the present tense... Perhaps it is the 21st century's first book-meme
Pacific Standard
An email-like, culturally-perceptive exploration of our digital realities... a mix between a dystopian modern glossary, Internet memes, multiple-choice dropdowns, mindsourced images and a fair bit of wisdom, it is a self-help book for the last generation that will die
AnOther Magazine
Absolutely amazing
Jon Snow
Channel 4 News
Brainy book that will rock your world
Evening Standard
V Magazine
I think everyone should read it
Mike Pinnington
Double Negative
Addictive... A fun read. But one that makes you question how you read, why you read and just how much the internet has restructured our brains... It is a book not only inspired by the internet, but seemingly written by the internet. It is as if the internet gained not only artificial self-consciousness but wisdom - and then became your pal
Tod Wodicka
National
I don't know about you but I would very much like a guide to this brave new world
Huck
An abstract representation of how we feel about our digital world
Hello!
It's a fun, visual and easy read. Verdict: In the future all books will be written this way
Sultan Saood Al Qassimi Age of Earthquakes = panic-inducingly addictive
Penny Martin, editor of The Gentlewoman A pocket-sized primer on our blossoming obsolescence
Kate Sutton
Art Forum
Many of us feel like technologies of the future are arriving too slowly, but a new philosophy-cum-modern-self-help book suggests that, in fact, it's dawning on us faster than we ever thought possible
Vice
A philosophical Anarchist Cookbook for the online era, when we are in touch with everyone at once all the time, or like to feel that we are... Like Marshall McLuhan's iconic dictum the medium is the message or the staccato bursts of meaning of George W.S. Trow's essay-book In the Context of No Context, The Age of Earthquakes is an abstract representation of how we feel now about how we are now. It's a book insistently engaged with the present tense... Perhaps it is the 21st century's first book-meme
Pacific Standard
An email-like, culturally-perceptive exploration of our digital realities... a mix between a dystopian modern glossary, Internet memes, multiple-choice dropdowns, mindsourced images and a fair bit of wisdom, it is a self-help book for the last generation that will die
AnOther Magazine
Absolutely amazing
Jon Snow
Channel 4 News
Brainy book that will rock your world
Evening Standard