{"id":54,"date":"2017-06-13T18:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:13:34","slug":"book-art-the-information-electric-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/book-art-the-information-electric-age","title":{"rendered":"Book Art The Information Electric Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BookArt-aCriticalRemix-McCarthy-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BookArt-aCriticalRemix-McCarthy-cover.jpg 642w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BookArt-aCriticalRemix-McCarthy-cover-186x300.jpg 186w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BookArt-aCriticalRemix-McCarthy-cover-635x1024.jpg 635w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BookArt-aCriticalRemix-McCarthy-cover-210x339.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Book Art The Information Electric Age<\/h2>\n<h3>by Steven McCarthy<\/h3>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Kolaj<\/em> #17<\/a>, Editor Ric Kasini Kadour reviewed Steven McCarthy\u2019s <em>Book Art The Information Electric Age<\/em>, a quasi-punk, quasi-Fluxus collaged remix of Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam Michaels\u2019 2012 book, <em>The Electric Information Age Book<\/em>, which is itself an homage to Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore\u2019s iconic 1967 masterpiece, <em>The Medium is the Massage<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From Kadour&#8217;s review:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>&#8220;In an age of fractured communication, when what we read most is the algorithm of a Facebook feed, awareness and knowledge of how we take in information is critical to our survival.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/critical-remix\/\">See more of the review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\">PURCHASE KOLAJ #17<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE\u00a0BOOK<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Book Art The Information Electric Age<\/em><br \/>\nby Steven McCarthy<br \/>\n6.88\u2033x4.25\u2033, 74 pages<br \/>\nillustrated<br \/>\nPublished by Steven McCarthy<br \/>\n2015<\/p>\n<p>The book may be purchased or downloaded from McCarthy\u2019s website <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.design.umn.edu\/mccarthy\/BookArt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>, which also has links to his article in <em>Visual Language<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Steven McCarthy<br \/>\nself-published, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/BookArt-aCriticalRemix-McCarthy-cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8O04t-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}