| Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social Contributor(s): Kroker, Arthur (Author), Kroker, Marilouise (Author) |
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ISBN: 1487540221 ISBN-13: 9781487540227 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Media & Internet - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 2021275731 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 8.9" W x 5.98" (0.57 lbs) 204 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With astonishing speed and relatively little public debate, we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and high-level surveillance are not uncommon to encounter. In this age of ground-breaking developments in robotic technologies, synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence and articulated robotic limbs, altogether forming a newly blended reality of machines, bodies, and affect. Technologies of the New Real draws from critical intersections of technology and society, including drones, surveillance, DIY bodies, and innovations in robotic technology, to explore what these advances in science and technology can tell us about our present reality, or what authors Arthur and Marilouise Kroker deem, as the new real of digital culture in the twenty-first century. Technologies of the New Real explores the many technologies of our reality as they penetrate the social, political, and economic static of our everyday lives, seemingly erasing traditionally conceived boundaries between humans and machines, and rendering fully ambivalent borders between the human mind and simulated data. |