Formulas for Now

Formulas for Now

Hans-Ulrich Obrist • Thames & Hudson

ISBN-10: 0500238502 · ISBN-13: 978‑0500238509 · 2008

Live offer for this book: 8 live copies of this book from $10.63 (as of 2026-08-30).

Dimensions: 8.5 × 6.7 × 1.1 in

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Imagine if the whole of life were reducible to a single formula. The results are not just unexpected but as wild, as weird and as wonderful as life itself. Many of the most creative and original minds of our time - more than a hundred from the worlds of art, science, mathematics, architecture, design, performance, literature and sociology - give us their personal and enterprising, or visionary, or inventive, or novel, or just deliriously delectable, formulas for contemporary life. Damien Hirst 's colour wheel; 'sex x technology = the future' by J.G. Ballard ; Gilbert & George 's injuction to ban religion; a distillation of Darwinian theory from Richard Dawkins ; Olafur Eliasson 's x and y axis; Peter Saville 's sketched diagrams; Louise Bourgeois 's conviction that there is no logic in love.. Look here for some novel answers (and many new questions and possibilites) in a book of 100% addictive allure.

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