The Extreme Self: Age of You

Shumon Basar is a writer and cultural critic. He is Commissioner of the Global Art Forum, a transdisciplinary summit held in Dubai and beyond, where recent editions focused on automation, trade, technology and the future. He is a founding member of the renowned 'Thought Council' at the Prada Foundation in Milan and is Adjunct Curator at Art Jameel. As Editor-at-Large for Tank magazine and Contributing Editor at Bidoun magazine, Shumon has written extensively about culture, technology and globalisation. Ever since his debut novel, Generation X, in 1991, Douglas Coupland has been a futurist oracle of contemporary culture. His novels Microserfs and J-Pod took place in tragi-comic tech settings, with Generation A fast forwarding to a near eco-apocalypse. Since 2000, Douglas' return to visual art has included sculpture, paintings, installations and performances, exhibited in notable museums around the world. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of London's Serpentine Galleries, is known as the most influential person in the art world today. Intrepid and globally omnipresent, he has curated over 300 exhibitions and conducted 3,000 hours of interviews with the greatest minds of the 20th and 21st centuries. His recent books include Ways of Curating (2015) and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects (2016).

Wenn Sie sich fragen, warum sich das Innere Ihres Kopfes in diesen Tagen so seltsam anfühlt, hat dieses Buch die Antworten! The Extreme Self ist eine neue Art von Graphic Novel, die zeigt, wie Sie sich in etwas anderes verwandelt haben. Es geht um die Neugestaltung Ihrer inneren Welt, während die äußere Welt immer ungewohnter und unsicherer wird. Die Abbildungen im Buch stammen von über 70 der weltbesten Künstler, Fotografen, Technologen und Musiker, während das kinetische Design von Daly & Lyon die Sprache der Meme zu einem Manifest erhebt. In vierzehn Kapiteln führt The Extreme Self durch Ruhm und Intimität, Post-Work und New Crowds, Identitätskrise und Ewigkeit. Finden Sie heraus, was wirklich mit Ihnen passiert in diesen beschleunigten Geschichten aus einer noch beschleunigteren Kultur. Willkommen in Age of You.

Chapter.........................................About Prelude Am I?.........................................What is the Extreme Self? Fame and The Face....................Beauty, celebrity and being seen Intimacy Industrial Complex......Love, sex and situationships Post-Work..................................Life after labour The Comments Section..............The loudest voices are is the Real World the most anonymous The New Crowd..........................Ways to be together yet physically distanced Micro-Culture/Micro-Othering...Why has 'cancelling' become so appealing, so addictive? Virtue Power..............................Performing social justice in public Inner Revolution..................................A return to spirituality, well-being as escape The 0.001%................................The extremely wealthy as Extreme Selves The End of Democracy................Democracy under threat from itself Wizards and Charismatics...........Techno-Utopians and techno-salvation Towards the End.........................Crisis, hope and eternity