New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future Tote from sealing a lunch bag

from sealing a lunch bag to making a special gift wrap

and Mahmood deliberates on the notion of beginning and endings

photographs and drawings from the Hassan Fathy archives

the research focussed on the underexposed historical record and evolving practices of some of the UAE’s most important modernist and contemporary artists

Publisher: Farrar

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future Tote from sealing a lunch bagAs the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation and that more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories and post factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power