Exits to the Posthuman Future is media theory for a globaldigital society which thrives, and sometimes perishes, at theintersection of technologies of speed, distant ethics and apervasive cultural anxiety. Arthur Kroker's incisive andinsightful text presents the emerging pattern of a posthumanfuture: life at the tip of technologies of acceleration, drift andcrash. Kroker links key concepts such as "GuardianLiberalism" and Obama's vision of the "JustWar" with a striking account of "culture drift"as the essence of real world technoculture. He argues thatcontemporary society displays growing uncertainty about theultimate ends of technological innovation and the intelligibilityof the digital future. The posthuman future is elusive: is it agathering storm of cynical abandonment, inertia, disappearance andsubstitution? Or else the development of a new form of criticalconsciousness - the posthuman imagination - as a means ofcomprehending the full complexity of life? Depending on which exitto the posthuman future we choose or, perhaps, which exit choosesus, Kroker argues that a very different posthuman future willlikely ensue.
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Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction: Trajectories of the Posthuman 1
Accelerate 29
2 The Posthuman Imagination: Neuro-Diversity, Psychic Trauma,and History in the Data Feed 31
Drift 47
3 Code Drift 49
4 History Drift 60
5 Archive Drift 80
6 Screen Drift 90
7 Media Drift 97
Crash: Slow Suicide of Technological Apocalypse109
8 After the Drones 111
9 Guardian Liberalism: Rhetoric of the "Just War"122
Crash: Traversal Consciousness 153
10 Premonitory Thought: That Fateful Day When Power AbjectedItself 155
11 Thinking the Future with Marshall McLuhan: Technologies ofAbandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution 173
12 Epilogue: Media Theory in the Data Storm 195
Notes 199
Index 207
Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) at the University of Victoria. He is the editor with Marilouise Kroker of the internationally acclaimed scholarly, peer-reviewed journal CTheory
