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.
