The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx - Couverture souple

Kroker, Arthur

 
9780802085733: The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx
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ISBN 10 : 0802085733 ISBN 13 : 9780802085733
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2004

Synopsis

In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker argues that every aspect of contemporary culture, society, and politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to technology.'

Moving between cultural history, our digital present, and the biotic future, Kroker theorizes on the relationship between human bodies and posthuman technology, and more specifically, wonders if the body of work offered by thinkers like Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche is a part of our past or a harbinger of our technological future. Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche intensify our understanding of the contemporary cultural climate. Heidegger's vision posits an increasingly technical society before which we have become 'objectless objects'- driftworks in a 'culture of boredom.' In Marx, the disciplining of capital itself by the will to technology is a code of globalization, first announced as streamed capitalism. Nietzsche mediates between them, envisioning in the gathering shadows of technological society the emergent signs of a culture of nihilism. Like Marx, he insists on thinking of the question of technology in terms of its material signs.

In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Kroker consistently enacts an invigorating and innovative vision, bringing together critical theory, art, and politics to reveal the philosophic apparatus of technoculture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Arthur Kroker is an emeritus professor and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria. He is the director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC).

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802085733
ISBN 13 
9780802085733
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
277
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0802087868 ISBN 13 :  9780802087867
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2004
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