Exits to the Posthuman Future

Arthur Kroker 지음

Polity 2014년 03월 12일 출간

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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 ldquo;Guardian Liberalismrdquo; and Obama's vision of the ldquo;Just Warrdquo; with a striking account of ldquo;culture driftrdquo; 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.

목차

1. Trajectories of the PosthumanACCELERATE2. The Posthuman Imagination: Exits to a Future of Neuro-Diversity, Psychic Trauma and History in the Data FeedDRIFT3. Code Drift4. History Drift5. Archive Drift6. Screen Drift7. Media DriftCRASHSlow Suicide of Technological Apocalypse8. After the Drones9. Guardian Liberalism: Rhetoric of the “Just War”Traversal Consciousness10. Premonitory Thought: That Fateful Day When Power Abjected ItselfEPILOGUE11. Thinking the Future with Marshall McLuhan: Technologies of Abandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution

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"With remarkable range and acuity, Arthur Kroker defines the posthuman condition of the twenty-first century as 'drift culture,' exploring its ramifications through genetics, data archives, and a variety of other cultural and technological sites. This is an exciting and crucially important synthesis of recent trends that anyone interested in where we are going should read."N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University"This book, on the thorny, arid issue of the posthuman, turns out to be Arthur Kroker&'s most humane, personal, and deeply felt work. It is so vast, dark, mythic and oracular that every haunted page should be read aloud by the ghosts of Nietzsche and McLuhan."Bruce Sterling, The Well"Arthur Kroker is a founding figure of posthuman futural studies. He is philosopher of the vectors of speed, theorist of the live data feed, and thinker of our need to ‘drift&' beyond today&'s codes, archives, and screens as post-historical mediators of a self-induced techno- catastrophe. A contemporary tour de force, Kroker&'s Exits to the Posthuman Future helps transform our understanding of technopolitics and war, consciousness, and power as theoretical categories and futural practices of disappearance."John Armitage, University of Southampton

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저자(글) Arthur Kroker

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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