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Emotional Capitalism, The Extreme Self and New Art Institutions with Shumon Basar
🕑 Added 2021-08-13 15:06:10 +0000 UTCOur first ever in person discussion this week with writer and curator Shumon Basar to discuss his new book with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Extreme Self, published in accompaniment with the exhibition "Age of You" most recently hosted at Jameel Art Centre, Dubai.
We discuss a number of neologisms that appear in the book, not least Shumon's concept of "Emotional Capitalism", the growing and alarming gulf between reality and the stories we have to comprehend it, and how art institutions might hope to keep up!
Read The Extreme Self:
Europe: https://doyoureadme.de/shop/culture-society/the-extreme-self?v=3a52f3c22ed6
US: https://www.artbook.com/9783960989738.html
Dazed Interview: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/53342/1/extreme-self-age-douglas-coupland-shumon-basar-hans-ulrich-obrist-interview
Watch Shumon's Visual Essay "Season Ending (The Day Of Forever): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzAc8yRWGCo
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In my part of the US near Washington DC I still see a stable career class. But after covid I see more people wanting to do something different. I don't think the colleges know what is coming with the post gig economy. It seems we operate on two tracks.. even me. The one that projects a future like it is now but there is a beginning of a preparation for climate chaos.
Excellent interview. I need to listen to the whole pod now that I am a member.
