The Extreme Self: Age of You

Walther & Franz K”nig

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SKU:
9783960989738
Author:
Shumon Basar and Douglas Coupland
Publisher:
Walther & Franz K”nig
Publication date:
17/6/2021
Format:
Paperback
illustration info:
109 Illustrations
Pages:
256
The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you?ve been morphing into something else. It?s about the re-making of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain.

The sudden arrival of the pandemic pushed the world faster and further into the 21st century. Now, life is dictated by two forces you can?t see: data and the virus. Are you really built for so much change so quickly?

Basar/Coupland/Obrist?s prequel, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, became an instant cult classic. It?s been described as, ?a mediation on the madness of our media,? and, ?an abstract representation of how we feel about our digital world.?

Like that book, The Extreme Self collapses comedy and calamity at the speed of swipe. Dazzling images are sourced from over 70 of the world?s foremost artists, photographers, technologists and musicians, while Daly & Lyon?s kinetic design elevates the language of memes into a manifesto. Over fourteen timely chapters, The Extreme Self tours through fame and intimacy, post-work and new crowds, identity crisis and eternity. This is an eye-opening, provocative portrait of what?s really happening to YOU



Contributor's include: Michael Stipe, Jarvis Cocker, Miranda July, Agnieszka Kurant, Amalia Ulman, Amnesia Scanner, Ana Nicolaescu, Ania Soliman, Anna Uddenberg, Anne Imhof, Asad Raza, Barry Doup‚, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Cao Fei, Carsten H”ller, C‚cile B Evans, Chen Zhou, Christine Sun Kim, Craig Green, Dennis Kavelman, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Emmanuel Iduma, Farah Al Qasimi, Fatima Al Qadiri, GCC, Goshka Macuga, Heman Chong, Ian Cheng, Isabel Lewis, Jenna Sutela, Johannes Paul Raether, John Menick, Jrgen Klauke, Koo Jeong A, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Liam Gillick, Liam Young, Lorraine O?Grady, Lucy Raven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Miles Gertler, Momus, Pamela Rosenkranz, Pan Daijing, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Peter Saville & Yoso Mouri, Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Precious Okoyomon, Rachel Rose, Raja'a Khalid, Samuel Fosso, Sara Cwynar, Satoshi Fujiwara, Simon Denny, Sissel Tolaas, Sophia Al-Maria, St‚phanie Saad‚, Stephanie Comilang, Suzanne Treister, Tabita Rezaire, Thomas Dozol, Thomas Hirschhorn, Trevor Paglen, Urs Lthi, Victoria Sin, Wang Haiyang, Yaeji, Yazan Khalili, Yu Honglei, Yuri Pattison.