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.
Mục lục
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 Mc Luhan: Technologies of
Abandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution 173
12 Epilogue: Media Theory in the Data Storm 195
Notes 199
Index 207
Giới thiệu về tác giả
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
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