{"product_id":"exits-to-the-posthuman-future-hardback-9780745671628","title":"Exits to the Posthuman Future (Hardback) 9780745671628","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExits to the Posthuman Future\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eArthur Kroker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745671628, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 January 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.458 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Kroker’s long-awaited Exits to the Posthuman Future presents us with a much more complex, and definitely more profound, analysis of the emerging posthuman condition. Motivated neither by a nostalgic yearning for what has been left behind nor by an unbridled optimism for what the fully realized technological society will bring, Kroker seeks to draw closer attention to the essentially elusive character of a future shaped by technologies that thrive on the liminal, the uncertain, and the indeterminate.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCultural Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With remarkable range and acuity, Arthur Kroker defines the posthuman condition of the twenty-first century as 'drift culture,' exploring its ramifications through genetics, data archives, and a variety of other cultural and technological sites. This is an exciting and crucially important synthesis of recent trends that anyone interested in where we are going should read.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eN. Katherine Hayles, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This book, on the thorny, arid issue of the posthuman, turns out to be Arthur Kroker’s most humane, personal, and deeply felt work. It is so vast, dark, mythic and oracular that every haunted page should be read aloud by the ghosts of Nietzsche and McLuhan.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBruce Sterling, The Well\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Arthur Kroker is a founding figure of posthuman futural studies. He is philosopher of the vectors of speed, theorist of the live data feed, and thinker of our need to ‘drift’ beyond today’s codes, archives, and screens as post-historical mediators of a self-induced techno- catastrophe. A contemporary tour de force, Kroker’s \u003ci\u003eExits to the Posthuman Future\u003c\/i\u003e helps transform our understanding of technopolitics and war, consciousness, and power as theoretical categories and futural practices of disappearance.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Armitage, University of Southampton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eExits to the Posthuman Future\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Trajectories of the Posthuman 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAccelerate 29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Posthuman Imagination: Neuro-Diversity, Psychic Trauma, and History in the Data Feed 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrift 47\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Code Drift 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 History Drift 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Archive Drift 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Screen Drift 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Media Drift 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrash: Slow Suicide of Technological Apocalypse 109\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 After the Drones 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Guardian Liberalism: Rhetoric of the “Just War” 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrash: Traversal Consciousness 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Premonitory Thought: That Fateful Day When Power Abjected Itself 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Thinking the Future with Marshall McLuhan: Technologies of Abandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Epilogue: Media Theory in the Data Storm 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 207\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407334338840,"sku":"9780745671628","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745671628.jpg?v=1784162864","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/exits-to-the-posthuman-future-hardback-9780745671628","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}