The Age of Earthquakes seeks to induce paradoxical visions of the contemporary, both ambivalent and critical
V Magazine
I think everyone should read it
Mike Pinnington
Double Negative
Addictive... A fun read. But one that makes you question how you read, why you read and just how much the internet has restructured our brains... It ... Read moreis a book not only inspired by the internet, but seemingly written by the internet. It is as if the internet gained not only artificial self-consciousness but wisdom - and then became your pal
Tod Wodicka
National
I don't know about you but I would very much like a guide to this brave new world
Huck
An abstract representation of how we feel about our digital world
Hello!
It's a fun, visual and easy read. Verdict: In the future all books will be written this way
Sultan Saood Al Qassimi Age of Earthquakes = panic-inducingly addictive
Penny Martin, editor of The Gentlewoman A pocket-sized primer on our blossoming obsolescence
Kate Sutton
Art Forum
Many of us feel like technologies of the future are arriving too slowly, but a new philosophy-cum-modern-self-help book suggests that, in fact, it's dawning on us faster than we ever thought possible
Vice
A philosophical Anarchist Cookbook for the online era, when we are in touch with everyone at once all the time, or like to feel that we are... Like Marshall McLuhan's iconic dictum the medium is the message or the staccato bursts of meaning of George W.S. Trow's essay-book In the Context of No Context, The Age of Earthquakes is an abstract representation of how we feel now about how we are now. It's a book insistently engaged with the present tense... Perhaps it is the 21st century's first book-meme
Pacific Standard
An email-like, culturally-perceptive exploration of our digital realities... a mix between a dystopian modern glossary, Internet memes, multiple-choice dropdowns, mindsourced images and a fair bit of wisdom, it is a self-help book for the last generation that will die
AnOther Magazine
Absolutely amazing
Jon Snow
Channel 4 News
Brainy book that will rock your world
Evening Standard
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