Arthur Kroker

Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant

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Body Invaders : Panic Sex in America

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Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins

Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins is a special triple issue celebrating the 15th year of publication of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. This text is also Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2 &3 (1991).

PANIC USA: Hypermodernism as America's Postmodernism

This is a series of meditations on panic as the dominant mood of postmodern culture at the fin-de-millenium. As technological imperatives of postmodern science merge with the social demands of popular culture, ours is an age of both deep anxiety and giddy euphoria. Vibrating between poles of despair and ecstasy, the central tendencies of postmodernity may be characterized as a catastrophic implosion of the languages of modern power into a dense and high speed oscillation between meaning and meaninglessness, control and chaos, increased centralization and an orbital spin into abstract and disembodied codes of information. Indeed, central to the human situation of the late twentieth century is the profound paradox of ultramodern technologies as simultaneously a prison house and a pleasure palace. We now live with the great secret and equally great anxiety that the technological experience is both Orwellian and hopelessly Utopian. But at the cost of whose bodies is this panicky secret kept for what parasitical profit? We probe some key sites of postmodern panic and trace the political, economic, and sexual effects of this panic scene on those it envelops. Thus: panic ideology; panic (shopping) malls, panic suburbs, panic TV, panic urine, and panic USA.

Exits to the Posthuman Future: Dreaming with Drones

This essay, divided into two parts, deals with the subjective and objective connotations of drones as technological agents of global surveillance and war. The first part deals with a number of scenarios which explore the kind of dystopian subjectivity invested in drones and its implications for the future. The second part looks at some examples of contemporary art meant to awaken critical awareness and affective conscience pertaining to the uses of drone technologies.

Exploring Postmodernism@@@The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture@@@The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics

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