Education
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from McMaster University in 1975.
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Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312024770/?tag=2022091-20
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx THE WILL TO TECHNOLOGY AND THE CULTURE OF NIHILISM: HEIDEGGER, NIETZSCHE, AND MARX By Kroker, Arthur ( Author )Mar-01-2004 Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007S7H024/?tag=2022091-20
Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene by Arthur Kroker (1989-05-03)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FKRDHU2/?tag=2022091-20
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche (Digital Futures)
( In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, ...)
In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker argues that every aspect of contemporary culture, society, and politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to technology.' Moving between cultural history, our digital present, and the biotic future, Kroker theorizes on the relationship between human bodies and posthuman technology, and more specifically, wonders if the body of work offered by thinkers like Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche is a part of our past or a harbinger of our technological future. Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche intensify our understanding of the contemporary cultural climate. Heidegger's vision posits an increasingly technical society before which we have become 'objectless objects'- driftworks in a 'culture of boredom.' In Marx, the disciplining of capital itself by the will to technology is a code of globalization, first announced as streamed capitalism. Nietzsche mediates between them, envisioning in the gathering shadows of technological society the emergent signs of a culture of nihilism. Like Marx, he insists on thinking of the question of technology in terms of its material signs. In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Kroker consistently enacts an invigorating and innovative vision, bringing together critical theory, art, and politics to reveal the philosophic apparatus of technoculture.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802085733/?tag=2022091-20
Data Trash: The Theory of Virtual Class (Culture Texts)
( Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill...)
Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill on the digital superhighway are just a couple of things that Kroker/Weinstein explains. Others include: the theory of the virtual class; virtual ideology; the will to virtuality; the political economy of virtual reality; prime time reports; virtual (photographic) culture; and the virtual history file.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031212211X/?tag=2022091-20
Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s (Culturetexts)
( Hacking the Future tells the story of what happens when...)
Hacking the Future tells the story of what happens when information technology escapes the high tech labs of Silicon Valley and invades the sites of everyday culture. It includes some of the survival tales of people who just want to feel again in a culture that is numbed and purified. A spoken word CD is included.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312129556/?tag=2022091-20
Arthur Kroker
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In addition to being a Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Kroker serves as director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC), located at the university. Kroker was appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory in 2003.
Works
book
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Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s (Culturetexts)
( Hacking the Future tells the story of what happens when...)
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The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche (Digital Futures)
( In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, ...)
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Data Trash: The Theory of Virtual Class (Culture Texts)
( Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill...)
- Panic Encyclopedia The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene
- Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene
- The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx THE WILL TO TECHNOLOGY AND THE CULTURE OF NIHILISM: HEIDEGGER, NIETZSCHE, AND MARX By Kroker, Arthur ( Author )Mar-01-2004 Paperback
- Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene by Arthur Kroker (1989-05-03)
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Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s (Culturetexts)
