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The age of earthquakes: a guide to the extreme present

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Blue Rider Press 2015 New YorkDescription: 253 pISBN:
  • 9780399173868
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.231 B2A4
Summary: The age of earthquake 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. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317811/the-age-of-earthquakes-by-douglas-coupland-hans-ulrich-obrist-shumon-basar/
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The age of earthquake 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.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317811/the-age-of-earthquakes-by-douglas-coupland-hans-ulrich-obrist-shumon-basar/

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