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Arthur Kroker

Adjunct and Professor Emeritus

Political Science

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Credentials:
PhD (1975) McMaster
Area of expertise:
Contemporary French and German political theory, technology

Publications

Books

  • Exits to the Posthuman Future, London and New York: Polity Press, 2014.
  • Critical Digital Studies: A Reader (Second Edition), introduced and co-edited with Marilouise Kroker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
  • Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
  • Code Drift: Essays in Critical Digital Studies, introduced and co-edited with Marilouise Kroker. NWP New Media Books, 2010.
  • Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, introduced and co-edited with Marilouise Kroker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • Born Again Ideology: Religion, Technology and Terrorism / Left Behind: Religion, Technology and Flight from the Flesh (with Stephen Pfohl, Boston College) Victoria: New World Perspectives, 2007.
  • The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche & Marx, Toronto: University of Toronto press, 2004
  • Digital Delirium, co-edited with Marilouise Kroker, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997; and Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1997
  • Hacking the Future, (with Marilouise Kroker and cd with Steve Gibson and David Kristian), New York: St Martin's Press, 1996; and Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1996
  • Data Trash: the Theory of the Virtual Class (with Michael A. Weinstein, Purdue University), New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994
  • Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh (with cd by digital music composer Steve Gibson), New York : St Martin's Press, 1993
  • The Last Sex : Feminism and Outlaw Bodies, co-edited with Marilouise Kroker, London: Macmillan, 1993; and New York: St Martin's Press, 1993
  • The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French Postmodern, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992; and Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1992
  • The Possessed Individual: Technology and New French Theory, London Macmillan, 1992
  • Ideology and Power in the Age of Lenin in Ruins, co-edited with Marilouise Kroker, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991; and Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1991
  • The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory, co-edited with Marilouise Kroker, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991; London; Macmillan, 1991 and Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1991.
  • The Post Modern Scene: Excremental Culture & Hyper-Aesthetics (with David Cook, University of Toronto), (2nd Edition), New York: St. Martin's press, 1987; London: Macmillian, 1987.
  • The Post Modern Scene: Excremental Culture & Hyper-Aesthetics, (with David Cook, University of Toronto), (1st Edition), New York: St. Martin's press, 1986; London: Macmillian, 1986
  • Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant, New York St. Martin's Press, 1985; Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1987
  • Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America edited and introduced by Marilouise Kroker, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987; London; Macmillian, 1987; Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1987
  • Panic Encyclopedia with Marilouise Kroker and david Cook, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989; London; Macmillian, 1989; Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1989
  • Feminism Now: Theory and Practice, co-edited with Marilouise Kroker, Mair Verthuy and Pamela McCallum, Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1985 (distributed by McClelland and Stewart, Canada)

Chapters in books

  • "History Drift," The Ends of History: Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason, eds. Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols, London: Routledge, 2012.
  • "Three Theses on Virilio Now," Virilio Now, Polity Press, 2010. (English and Chinese)
  • "The Mohawk Refusal," This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockade,", Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Winnipeg, 2010.
  • "Digital Cosmologies," in Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • "Soft Technology," in TEXT Technology, K. Kuchey, ed., Hamilton: McMaster University, 2008.
  • "When Data Slams into the Human Condition, What Results is Here, There and Everywhere," in Synthetic Times - Media Art China. Z. Ga, ed., Cambridge: MIT Press and Beijing: National Art Museum of China, 2008. (bilingual English and Mandarin)
  • "Peter Sloterdijk's Art of Conjuration," in Festschrift für Peter Sloterdijk zum 26. Juni 2007, M. Jongen & C. Werntgen, eds., Privatdruck: Sigfried Unself Stiftung, 2007.
  • "Suspicion of Thought," with Marilouise Kroker, in Postmodernism. What Moment? P. Goulimari, ed., Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. 154-175.
  • "Enhanced Data Bodies," with Marilouise Kroker, in L'Image Ramifié: Le Photographique du Web / Photographic Images on the Web, E. Tremblay, ed., Québec: Éditions J'ai Vu, 2007.
  • "Viral Power," an interview with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker in Culture, Power and History: Studies in Critical Sociology, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006, pp. 309-322.
  • "We Are All Stelarcs Now," with Marilouise Kroker, in Stelarc: The Monograph, Marquard Smith, ed., Cambridge (MA): MIT University Press, 2005, pp. 63-86.
  • "Destino Tecnologico," in Digital Medina: Conversazioni Sul Progetto 2002-2005, Mirko Tattarini, ed., Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2005, pp. 86-92.
  • "Prefazione: Manifesto per un'utopia della Medina Digitale," in Digital Medina: Conversazioni Sul Progetto 2002-2005, Mirko Tattarini, ed., Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2005, pp. 9-11.
  • "Cloner," with Marilouise Kroker, in Mind Factory, Louis Armand, ed., Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005, pp. 299-302.
  • "Cyberwar," in Massive Change, Bruce Mau and Jennifer Leonard, eds., London: Phaidon, 2004.
  • "I Was Seduced by 48 Robots in a Metallic Arena," with Marilouise Kroker, in /Es - Das Wesen Der Machine, Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn, eds., Osnabruck: Publications of the European Media Art Festival, 2004.
  • "Technology and Design," in Design Today and Tomorrow, Kunst-und Aussstellugnshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn: 2000.
  • "Code Warriors," in The Cybercultures Reader, edited by David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, London: Routledge, 2000.
  • "The Theory of the Virtual Class," in Technoscience and Cyberculture, Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsons and Michael Menser, eds. New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • "The Mohawk Refusal," Semiotext(e) Canada, New York, September 1994, pp 165-169.
  • "Cynical Aesthetics: The Games of Foucault," in Representing Foucault: Essays in the Wake of the ‘80s, edited by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso and Silvia Caporale-Bizzini, Postmodern Studies: Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 269-275.
  • "Panic Cinema: Sex in the Age of the Hyperreal," in Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film, edited by Christopher Sharret, Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 1993.
  • "Technology and Culture," in The Fifth House Reader: Rethinking the Future, Saskatoon, Sask, 1993.
  • "Sacrificial Sex," in Fluid Exchanges, edited by James Miller, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, pp. 321-328.
  • "Music Rules," in What a Wonderful World: Music Videos in Architecture, Groninger, Netherlands: Groninger Museum, 1991
  • "Panic USA," in Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics, edited and introduced by William Sterns and William Chaloupka, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
  • "The Moose Jaw Postmodern," in Richard Hancox, Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario, 1990.
  • "Life Against History," in Sojourns in the New World, edited and introduced by Tom Darby, Ottawa: Carleton Library Series, 1986.
  • "Electronic Art and Postmodern Technology: Tony Brown's Sculptural Simulacra," in Tony Brown Day Dreams, edited by Bruce Ferguson and Shirley Madill, Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery Exhibition Series, 1986.
  • "Panic Science: Francis Bacon/Alex Colville," in Life After Postmodernism, edited and Introduced by John Fekete, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
  • "Canadian Political Theory," in The New Practical Guide to Canadian Political Economy, edited by Daniel Drache and Wally Clement, Toronto: Lorimer, 1985.
  • "Modern Power in Reverse Image: Michel Foucault/Talcott Parsons," in The Structural Allegory: Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought, edited and introduced by John Fekete, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Articles in refereed journals

  • "The Future of Digital Archives", Revue Intermedialites, Université de Montréal, 2011.
  • "The Arab Spring: The Contradictions of Obama's Charismatic Liberalism", CTHEORY, January, 2011.
  • "Event Scene: The Obama Avatar," CTHEORY, June, 2010.
  • "Code Drift," with M. Kroker, CTHEORY, April, 2010.
  • "Code Drift: Preface," With M. Kroker, CTHEORY, April, 2010.
  • "City of Transformation: Paul Virilio in Obama’s America," with M. Kroker, CTHEORY, October, 2008.
  • "Born Again Ideology," CTHEORY, April, 2005.
  • "The Nihilism of War," with M. Kroker, CTHEORY, April, 2003.
  • "El Nihilismo de la Guerra," Spanish translation by Carlos Silva, CTHEORY, April, 2003.
  • Hyper-Heidegger," CTHEORY, October 2002.
  • "The Image Matrix," CTHEORY, March 2002
  • Teknologi Med:K@pitalismens Hastighet, Samtiden 2/3, Oslo: 2000, CTHEORY pp. 85-92.
  • "Fast War/Slow Motion," CTHEORY, Event-Scene, 76, March, 1999.
  • "Digital Ideology: E-Theory (1), CTHEORY, September, 1999.
  • "Global Algorithm 1.4: The Theory of the Virtual Class", CTHEORY, May,1996.
  • "Deleuze and Guattari: Two Meditations," CTHEORY, November 1995
  • "Digital Humanism: the Processed World of Marshall McLuhan," CTHEORY, June 1995
  • "The Political Ecomomy of Virtual Reality: Pan Capitalism", CTHEORY, March 1994
  • "The Political Economy of Virtual Reality: Pan-Capitalism" Works of the Laboratory of Virtualistics, Russia, Vol. 3, 1997. pp. 70-78.(Russian translation)
  • "Digital Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan," form diskurs, Journal of Design and Design Theory, 2, 1, 1997. pp. 62-94. (German translation).
  • "The Will to Virtuality," 10+1, Tokyo, No.7, Autumn 1996. pp.109-124. (Japanese translation).
  • "Looping," Chloroform, Fall, 1994, pp. 125-131.
  • "Reality Media." Mediamatic World Issue (Amsterdam, Holland),Winter, 1993.
  • "Excremental TV," Mediamatic, Winter, 1993.
  • "The Recline of Western Civilization," NOX special issue, Amsterdam, Holland, Spring, 1993.
  • "The Virtual World," Mediamatic, No Panic issue, Summer 1991.
  • "Panic Meditations on Technology," Public 2, 2, 1, Public Access Project, Toronto, 1989.
  • "Panic Baudrillard," Communication, 10, (1988).
  • "Technology and Canadian Art," Australian-New Zealand Journal of Canadian Studies, 1, 1 (1986).
  • "Technologie et art emancipatoire: la vision manitobaine," with K. J. Hughes, Sociologie et societé, Presses de L'Université de Montréal, Hiver (1986).
  • "Baudrillard's Marx," Theory, Culture and Society, 2, 3 (1985) England.
  • "Television and the Triumph of Culture," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 9, 3 (1985).
  • "Au délà du postmodernisme: Nietzsche/Chirico," CJPST, 9, 3 (1985).
  • "Technology and Culture: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, December (1984).
  • "The Arc of a Dead Power: Magritte/Baudrillard/Augustine," CJPST, 8, 1-2 (1984).
  • "Baudrillard's Challenge," with Charles Levin, CJPST, 8, 1-2 (1983),
  • "The Labyrinth of Dependency," with Daniel Drache, CJPST, 8, 3 (1983).
  • "The Disembodied Eye: Ideology and Power in the Age of Nihilism," CJPST, 7, 1-2 (1983).
  • "Augustine as the Founder of Modern Experience: The Legacy of Charles Norris Cochrane," CJPST, 6, 3 (1982).
  • "An Ideology in Waiting," CJPST, 5, 2 (1981).
  • "Migrating from the Disciplines," Journal of Canadian Studies, 15, 3 (1980).
  • "Hollywood, Hollywood," CJPST, 4, 1(1980).
  • "Capital of Hell," CJPST, 4, 1 (1980).
  • "On Moral Economy," CJPST, 1, 1 (1978).

Articles in art journals

  • "Swimmer and Sun: 1993," in Six Paintings by Alex Colville: A Symposium, Canadian Art, Winter, 1994, pp. 28-29.
  • "Szenen aus dem letzten Geschlecht: Der Wille Zur Reinheit," with M. Kroker, Artic (Bonn, Germany), Winter, 1994, pp. 60-69.