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Free Thinking: The Age of Earthquakes, Maths in Films

The Age of Earthquakes, Maths in Films

10/03/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The Age of Earthquakes, Maths in Films

With discussions about the 'extreme present' and maths and mathematicians in film.

With writers Douglas Coupland and Shumon Basar and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist on what is the 'extreme present'. Plus a discussion about maths and mathematicians in film.

Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar and Hans Ulrich Obrist explain the Extreme Present to Matthew Sweet. Their co-authored book The Age of Earthquakes builds on Marshall McLuhan's analysis of how technology influenced culture in the 1960s and is described as "a new history of how we are feeling in the world today when the future seems to be happening much faster than we ever thought. When your life stops feeling like a story, you stop feeling like an individual and technology remembers everything you don't have to".

Also, maths and mathematicians in film. Ahead of the release of Morgan Matthews' comedy drama X+Y which focuses on a socially awkward teenage maths prodigy, mathematician Hannah Fry and film critic Kevin Jackson explore the ways in which number-crunching geniuses have been depicted on the big screen.

Image: Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Photo Credit: Marc Falk.

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