The Age of Earthquakes
A Guide to the Extreme Present
by Shuman Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Author(s)

Shuman Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Publication

New York : Blue Rider Press, 2015

Scope

256 Pages, illustrated, 18 cm.

ISBN

9780399173868

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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 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.

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Keywords

new media

Location

Cabinet 11 - 3: Technologie + Posthumanisme

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