The Age of Earthquakes created an all-to-real comment on society’s scary, heavy reliance on the internet and the age of advanced technology. The short text explored the ever growing internet culture with satirical jabs at social media, online dating, and anything the internet has provided the public with since its debut. The text is as interesting to look at as it is to read. Each page includes the same sort of aesthetic style as the next and each image and text are solely black and white. The novel created a series of phrases or words and then defined them with each being in relation to phenomenon we now experience, of which I assume is, due to the internet. In other words, the way we feel and experience life as it is will forever be altered because of the internet. Wrapped in various claims of how obsessed we are as a society with media, the novel authentically captured our human error.
I was intrigued by the novel’s graphics paired with short phrases that are often very cynical or satirical. The novel perpetuated that- cynicism. I enjoyed this to an extent. The cynicism was correct in that the world is doomed, and humans have created this inevitability. But, I was annoyed by the fact that three men, all over the age of 40 (two over 50), complained for 255 pages. I understand that as a seventeen year old I am not necessarily smarter or more experienced than these men, but I feel that their complaining only cements the notion of older people hating the internet.
As a result of reading this, I am curious as to if they believe the internet creates anything good. Maybe I interpreted this text completely wrong, but essentially this is what I interpreted from this text.
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I like that you used many of the techniques you talked about in your pastiche; the aesthetic style and the cynacism. The image itself seems very cynical, but it gives it a nice, dark tone. 10/10 would recommend.
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