We Can't Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System

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Modern media entrepreneur Jefferson Hack, in the first comprehensive book of his work, presents his boundary-breaking collaborations across music, art, film, exhibitions, and print and digital media projects. Hack the System will appeal to those interested in media, culture, and design. Hack the System examines how the influential fashion editor Jefferson Hack has explored different media formats over the last 20 years, and how his work raises new questions for the future of creative communication.

Jefferson Hack is the editorial director and publisher of Dazed Group. His work over the past 20 years with the iconic magazines Dazed & Confused, AnOther Magazine and Another Man have seen him constantly innovate the cutting edge of journalism, film, photography, television and digital media. Hack pioneered the idea of magazine as communities, as well as the transformation that saw the industry move from print to digital. Previously, he was a regular contributor to the Telegraph. He currently collaborates with a number of leading global brands. Hans Ulrich Obrist is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. Bjoerk is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and occasional actress. Tilda Swinton is a British actress and fashion muse known for both art-house and mainstream films. William Gibson is an American-Canadian fiction novelist and essayist. Adam Curtis is an English documentary filmmaker.

"On its face, it may seem out of character: a publishing icon whose exploits helped usher in the dawn of digital media opting for an old-fashioned hardcover book for his career antholoy. That is until the first page of Jefferson Hack's We Can't Do This Alone: Hack the System is cracked - perhaps even before. With provocative imagery and textured typography, the cover itself reflects the subversive-cool, 'punk positivist' ethos the transdisciplinary Hack cultivated for decades . . . Through the lens of celebrity collaborators, artists, fellow provocateurs, muses, and many others, the book chronicles Hack's fight against safety - what he considers the most unnatural state for a creative." -SURFACE MAGAZINE