Arthur Kroker: Exits to the Posthuman Future

Cover: 9780745671635 | Exits to the Posthuman Future | Arthur Kroker | Taschenbuch | 224 S.

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Exits to the Posthuman Future is media theory for a global digital society which thrives, and sometimes perishes, at the intersection of technologies of speed, distant ethics and a pervasive cultural anxiety. Arthur Kroker's incisive and insightful text presents the emerging pattern of a posthuman future: life at the tip of technologies of acceleration, drift and crash. Kroker links key concepts such as "Guardian Liberalism" and Obama's vision of the "Just War" with a striking account of "culture drift" as the essence of real world technoculture. He argues that contemporary society displays growing uncertainty about the ultimate ends of technological innovation and the intelligibility of the digital future. The posthuman future is elusive: is it a gathering storm of cynical abandonment, inertia, disappearance and substitution? Or else the development of a new form of critical consciousness - the posthuman imagination - as a means of comprehending the full complexity of life? Depending on which exit to the posthuman future we choose or, perhaps, which exit chooses us, Kroker argues that a very different posthuman future will likely ensue.

Über den Autor

Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) at the University of Victoria. He is the editor with Marilouise Kroker of the internationally acclaimed scholarly, peer-reviewed journal CTheory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

1 Introduction: Trajectories of the Posthuman 1

Accelerate 29

2 The Posthuman Imagination: Neuro-Diversity, Psychic Trauma, and History in the Data Feed 31

Drift 47

3 Code Drift 49

4 History Drift 60

5 Archive Drift 80

6 Screen Drift 90

7 Media Drift 97

Crash: Slow Suicide of Technological Apocalypse 109

8 After the Drones 111

9 Guardian Liberalism: Rhetoric of the "Just War" 122

Crash: Traversal Consciousness 153

10 Premonitory Thought: That Fateful Day When Power Abjected Itself 155

11 Thinking the Future with Marshall McLuhan: Technologies of Abandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution 173

12 Epilogue: Media Theory in the Data Storm 195

Notes 199

Index 207

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	224 S.
ISBN-13:	9780745671635
ISBN-10:	0745671632
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kroker, Arthur
Hersteller:	Polity Press John Wiley & Sons
Maße:	226 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Arthur Kroker
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.03.2014
Gewicht:	0,363 kg

Artikel-ID: 105526591