Arthur Kroker Livres

Exploring the interplay between technology and nihilism, Arthur Kroker delves into the thoughts of Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche to analyze contemporary culture's evolution. He argues that the 'will to technology' shapes societal dynamics, leading to a 'culture of boredom' where individuals become 'objectless objects.' Kroker critiques globalization through Marx's lens of streamed capitalism and Nietzsche's insights into emerging nihilism. This work merges critical theory with art and politics, offering a provocative perspective on our technological future and its philosophical implications.

Spasm is the 1990s. A theory-fiction about the crash world of virtual reality, from the cold sex of Madonna Mutant, the pure sex of Michael Jackson and the dead sex of Elvis to the technological fetishes of Silicon Valley. Written from the perspectives of cultural politics, music, photography, cinema and cyber-machine art,Spasm explores the ecstasy and fadeout of wired culture. Here, we suddenly find ourselves the inhabitants of a glittering, but vaguely menacing, technological galaxy where the machines finally begin to speak. Spasm is a book/CD to take along with you on your hacker journey of the electronic frontier.

Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill on the digital superhighway are just a couple of things that Kroker and Weinstein explain. Others 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.

Exploring the intersection of art, technology, and culture, this book reveals how the contemporary scientific imagination reshapes our understanding of daily experiences. It delves into the transformative impact of quantum concepts on various aspects of life, offering readers a fresh perspective on the world around them.

A thematically focused exploration of feminism in the 1990s. Initiated as a companion text to "Body Invaders" this book traces out the logic of imminent reversibility in received patriarchial discourses in psychoanalysis, art, theory and culture.

Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.

Focusing on the entanglement of art, technology, and culture, The Quantum Revolution illuminates the contemporary scientific imagination as a new way of understanding everyday life.

Das Wörterbuch der Panik ist Postmoderne in Aktion: eine postalphabetische Beschreibung des Verschwindens von Fakten im Aufblitzen thermonuklearer Ereignisse. Von Panik-Astronomie, Panik-Babies, Panik-Kunst über Panik-Einkaufszentren bis hin zu Panik-Sex, Panik-Mode, Panik-U. S. A. und Panik-Werbung ist dieses Buch der definitive Wegweiser ins Fin-de-millenium. Es beginnt mit der verhängnisvollen Entdeckung der Physik, dass uns 90 Prozent des natürlichen Universums abhanden gekommen sind. Einfach verschwunden! Und niemand weiss wohin (insbesondere die Physiker nicht). Jetzt, da in der postmodernen Kultur Wissenschaft und Technologie ihren Triumph als die eigentliche Sprache der Macht feiern, behauptet das Wörterbuch der Panik, dass auch 90 Prozent der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft abhanden gekommen sind. Einfach entschwunden, und keiner weiß wohin (insbesondere die Soziologen nicht). Die Panik-Enzyklopädie beinhaltet Einträge von zahlreichen Theoretikern, Soziologen und Künstlern (Art in Ruins, Jean Baudrillard, Mark Lewis, Eileen Manion, Deena Weinstein, Michael Weinstein und anderen).