Exits to the posthuman future / Arthur Kroker.
| Author/creator | Kroker, Arthur, 1945- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, |
| Description | 212 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : trajectories of the posthuman -- Accelerate. The posthuman imagination : neuro-diversity, psychic trauma, and history in the data feed -- Drift. Code drift -- History drift -- Archive drift -- Screen drift -- Media drift -- Crash : slow suicide of technological apocalypse. After the drones -- Guardian liberalism : rhetoric of the "just war" -- Crash : traversal consciousness. Premonitory thought : that fateful day when power abjected itself -- Thinking the future with Marshall McLuhan : technologies of abandonment, inertia, disappearance, substitution -- Epilogue : media theory in the data storm. |
| Abstract | "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."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019304431 |
| ISBN | 9780745671628 |
| ISBN | 0745671624 |
| ISBN | 9780745671635 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0745671632 (pbk.) |
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