In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed i… - Arthur Kroker
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed i…
- Arthur Kroker
Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today. - Arthur Kroker
Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [… - Arthur Kroker
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... […
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies … - Arthur Kroker
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies …
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustio… - Arthur Kroker
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustio…
The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a s… - Arthur Kroker
The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a s…
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