Arthur Kroker (born 1945) is a Canadian author, editor, educator and researcher of political science, technology and culture.
Life and career
He earned a PhD in
political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...
from
McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...
in 1975. In addition to being a professor of political science at the
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...
, Kroker serves as director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC), located at the university. Kroker was appointed to the
Canada Research Chair
Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Program goals
The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...
in technology, culture and theory in 2003. He is the editor for the online academic journal ''
CTheory'', an international journal of theory, technology and culture.
Kroker has been an outspoken critic of the transformation of the early internet into a consumer-driven system ("virtual class"). Austrian magazine
Monochrom
Monochrom (stylised as monochrom) is an international art-technology-philosophy group, publishing house and film production company. It was founded in 1993, and defines itself as "an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop att ...
interviewed him about his political motivations in 1996.
He was married to Marilouise Kroker from 1971 until her death in 2018.
Bibliography
Books
*''Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant'' (1984)
*''The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics'' (1987) (with David Cook)
*''Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene'' (1989) (with David Cook and Marilouise Kroker)
*''The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French Postmodern'' (1992)
*''SPASM: Virtual Reality, Android Music, and Electric Flesh'' (1993)
*''Data Trash: Theory of the Virtual Class'' (1994) (with Michael A. Weinstein)
*''Hacking the Future'' (1996) (with Marilouise Kroker)
*''The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche and Marx'' (2004)
*''Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway'' (2012)
*''Exits to the Posthuman Future'' (2014)
*''Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social'' (2021) (with Marilouise Kroker)
As editor
*''Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America'' (1987) (with Marilouise Kroker)
*''The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory'' (1991) (with Marilouise Kroker)
*''The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies'' (1993) (with Marilouise Kroker)
*''Digital Delirium'' (1997) (with Marilouise Kroker)
*''Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader'' (2004) (with Marilouise Kroker)
*''Critical Digital Studies: A Reader'' (2008) (with Marilouise Kroker)
References
External links
Pacific Centre for Technology and CultureCTheory.net
* ttp://www.chairs.gc.ca/web/chairholders/viewprofile_e.asp?id=847 Profile as Canadian Research Chairholderbr>Canadian Interviews. Arthur Kroker, 'What to Make of Thought?' July, 2009.
1945 births
Living people
McMaster University alumni
University of Victoria faculty
Mass media theorists
Canadian literary critics
Critical theory
Postmodern theory
Canada Research Chairs
Date of birth missing (living people)
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