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A review by gardensong
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland
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2.5/5
For something that is "a highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era," it's kind of funny I guess that this book is just, fine, I guess? There are good parts of it, there are boring bits of it, there are gimmicky and oooh modern generation bits of it (which probably didn't mean to be as "wah, wah" as they seemed) Anyway I liked the holzerism "protect me from what amazon says I want" especially since amazon probably recommended this book to me. I read the whole thing in the bookshop of the Pompidou centre (is that morally wrong, sorry Doug and co.) and I think that says a lot about it.
For something that is "a highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era," it's kind of funny I guess that this book is just, fine, I guess? There are good parts of it, there are boring bits of it, there are gimmicky and oooh modern generation bits of it (which probably didn't mean to be as "wah, wah" as they seemed) Anyway I liked the holzerism "protect me from what amazon says I want" especially since amazon probably recommended this book to me. I read the whole thing in the bookshop of the Pompidou centre (is that morally wrong, sorry Doug and co.) and I think that says a lot about it.