Exits to the Posthuman Future

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 driftas 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.