A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary
look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.
50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence
of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland
and 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
offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present (see below); 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.
30+ artists contributions: With contributions from Farah Al Qasimi,
Ed Atkins, Alessandro Bavo, Gabriele Basilico, Josh Bitelli, James
Bridle, Cao Fei, Alex Mackin Dolan, Thomas Dozol, Constant Dullaart,
Cecile B Evans, Rami Farook, Hans-Peter Feldmann, GCC, K-Hole, Liam
Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Eloise Hawser, Camille Henrot, Hu
Fang, K-Hole, Koo Jeong-A, Katja Novitskova, Lara Ogel, Trevor Paglen,
Yuri Patterson, Jon Rafman, Bunny Rogers, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Taryn
Simon, Hito Steyerl, Michael Stipe, Rosemarie Trockel, Amalia Ulman,
David Weir, Trevor Yeung.
