Technologies of the new real : viral contagion and death of the social / Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker.
| Author/creator | Kroker, Arthur, 1945- author. |
| Other author | Kroker, Marilouise, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022. |
| Description | x, 189 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Digital futures Digital futures. ^A606806 |
| Contents | DIY Bodies -- Power under Surveillance, Capitalism under Suspicion -- Dreaming with Drones -- Robots Trekking across the Uncanny Valley. |
| Abstract | "With astonishing speed and relatively little public debate, we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and high-level surveillance are not uncommon to encounter. In this age of ground-breaking developments in robotic technologies, synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence and articulated robotic limbs, altogether forming a newly blended reality of machines, bodies, and affect. Technologies of the New Real draws from critical intersections of technology and society, including drones, surveillance, DIY bodies, and innovations in robotic technology, to explore what these advances in science and technology can tell us about our present reality, or what authors Arthur and Marilouise Kroker deem, as the "new real" of digital culture in the twenty-first century. Technologies of the New Real explores the many technologies of our reality as they penetrate the social, political, and economic static of our everyday lives, seemingly erasing traditionally conceived boundaries between humans and machines, and rendering fully ambivalent borders between the human mind and simulated data."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kroker, Arthur, 1945- Technologies of the new real. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022 1487540248 9781487540241 |
| ISBN | 9781487540210 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1487540213 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781487540227 paperback |
| ISBN | 1487540221 paperback |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | T14.5 .K76 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |