Reunions. #ShumonBasar (at Hasir) https://www.instagram.com/p/CffC1ltIKl_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Who doesn't want to read a graphic-novel guide to the demented present from @shumonbasar @douglascoupland & @hansulrichobrist — authors of the bestselling 'The Age of Earthquakes'?⁠ ⁠ Spreads here are from 'The Extreme Self: Age of You,' published by @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig and featured at our @expochicago bookstore, run in collaboration with @mcachicago ⁠ ⁠ If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. 'The Extreme Self' is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the remaking of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain. Basar, Coupland and Obrist’s cult prequel, 'The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present,' was hailed as “a meditation on the madness of our media” (Dazed) and “an abstract representation of how we feel about our digital world” (Hello!). 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 kinetic design by @daly_lyon elevates the language of memes into a manifesto. Over 14 timely chapters, 'The Extreme Self' tours through fame and intimacy, post-work and new crowds, identity crisis and eternity. Crazed, hilarious, unsettling, true. No other book today so presciently predicts how the present and the future have become the same thing. 'The Extreme Self' is an accelerated tale for an even more accelerated culture. Welcome to the Age of You.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ #extremeself #shumonbasar #doublascoupland #hansulrichobrist #ageofearthquakes⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CcIuVFhLZk5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"… The book endures as a technology to help us see; to help us make sense of our mediatized lives in anxious times."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ We ❤️ this in-depth review of 'The Extreme Self: Age of You' by @shumonbasar @douglascoupland @hansulrichobrist (with design by @daly_lyon ) on @aigaeyeondesign ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @gkafka begins the review: ⁠⁠ "For thousands of years, earth’s resources have been extracted by bodies, most of whom were not free,” reads one of the opening pages of 'The Extreme Self.' “But now, it’s our bodies, and our selves, being extracted. And… mostly we offer it up for FREE.” The word FREE stretches upwards away from the rest of the sentence, its serifs are elongated and a little unsettling: this isn’t “free” as in freedom; it’s “free” as in exploitation. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This sense of anxious ambivalence runs throughout 'The Extreme Self,' the new “graphic novel” (and former exhibition) authored by the artworld dream team of critic Shumon Basar, novelist Douglas Coupland and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, which follows up their 2015 collaboration 'The Age of Earthquakes.' Like its prequel, 'The Extreme Self' collects neologisms and short-form textual fragments which question the ways that mass technological changes are changing how we experience the world around us. These texts are paired with images collected from a prestigious cast of artists, musicians and other contemporary thinkers from around the world and, crucially, tied together with graphic design by London-based studio Daly & Lyon. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Speaking to Eye on Design via video call, Basar describes the books as a “portrait of a friendship” between himself, Coupland and Obrist. This friendship had previously been expressed through a series of public discussions on the work and influence of Marshall McLuhan, whose book, 'The Medium is the Massage' is a clear precedent to 'Age of Earthquakes' and 'The Extreme Self.…"⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Published by @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #extremeself #shumonbasar #doublascoupland #hansulrichobrist #ageofearthquakes⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnDJ5Alz8E/?utm_medium=tumblr

A few page spreads from 'The Extreme Self: Age of You' by @shumonbasar @douglascoupland & @hansulrichobrist — published by @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Unless noted, all words are by Basar/Coupland/Obrist and Design is by @daly_lyon Images below:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 1. @fatimaalqadiri Shaneera, 2016⁠⁠ 2. @luthi.urs "TRANSMISSION ERROR II" and "TRANSMISSION ERROR I", 2015⁠⁠ 3. @cao_fei Asia One, 2018⁠⁠ 4. The authors + Daly & Lyon⁠⁠ 5. @yuripattison IMG_2019⁠⁠ 6. @jennasutela Many Headed Reading, 2016⁠⁠ 7. @ilocos.bitch still from Lumapit Sa Akin, 2016⁠⁠ 8. The authors + Daly & Lyon⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #extremeself #shumonbasar #doublascoupland #hansulrichobrist #ageofearthquakes⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CR1IhXisim3/?utm_medium=tumblr

A few lines from new release, ‘The Extreme Self,’ a graphic-novel guide to the demented present by @shumonbasar @douglascoupland and @hansulrichobrist If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. ‘The Extreme Self’ is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the remaking of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain. Basar, Coupland and Obrist’s cult prequel, ‘The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present,’ was hailed as “a meditation on the madness of our media” (Dazed) and “an abstract representation of how we feel about our digital world” (Hello!). 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 14 timely chapters, ‘The Extreme Self’ tours through fame and intimacy, post-work and new crowds, identity crisis and eternity. Crazed, hilarious, unsettling, true. No other book today so presciently predicts how the present and the future have become the same thing. ‘The Extreme Self’ is an accelerated tale for an even more accelerated culture. Welcome to the Age of You. Published by @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig Read more via link in bio. #extremeself #shumonbasar #doublascoupland #hansulrichobrist #ageofearthquakes https://www.instagram.com/p/CRyvzcWDWVb/?utm_medium=tumblr

Your attention please. Spreads from 'The Extreme Self,' the new, multilayered, collaborative graphic-novel-esque guide to accelerated current-day “reality” by 'The Age of Earthquakes' authors @shumonbasar @douglascoupland & @hansulrichobrist — three of this ever-more perplexing era’s most preeminent thinkers. Pairing images by 70 of the world’s foremost artists, photographers, technologists and musicians along with memes and phrases, questions and short texts by the authors, this is a timely analog manual for the insanity of now.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #extremeself #shumonbasar #doublascoupland #hansulrichobrist #ageofearthquakes https://www.instagram.com/p/CRyvUNwsuFp/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hot book alert! #Repost @hansulrichobrist with @make_repost ・・・ It’s all happening faster than we thought From Age of You by @shumonbasar @douglascoupland & Hans Ulrich Obrist #ageofyou #shumonbasar #douglascoupland https://www.instagram.com/p/CRuVE-9M0j5/?utm_medium=tumblr

I had such an much amazingly enlightening time this afternoon chatting with @ilocos.bitch @sinforvictory and @shumonbasar for the first @artbasel Conversations for the #HongKong edition. Special thanks to the wonderful team #TobySkeggs @stephanie_waiyi_bailey and of course the ever wondrous @addyooi for having us! Also thanks to @shaneakeroyd for this cool pic of us! #HemanChong #ShumonBasar #SinWaiKin #VictoriaSin #StephanieComilang (at Art Basel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNsraMjle2m/?igshid=ay3kxs0fpp7q