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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...
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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 "guardian liberalism" and Obama's vision of the "just war" with a striking account of "culture drift" as the essence of real world technoculture ... |
| Carrier Form: | 212 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780745671635 (paperback) : 0745671632 (paperback) 9780745671628 0745671624 |
| Index Number: | T14 |
| CLC: | N05 |
| Call Number: | N05/K934-1 |
| 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. |