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Focusing on the entanglement of art, technology, and culture, The Quantum Revolution illuminates the contemporary scientific imagination as a new way of understanding everyday life.

Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.

Exploring the interplay between technology and nihilism, Arthur Kroker delves into the thoughts of Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche to analyze contemporary culture's evolution. He argues that the 'will to technology' shapes societal dynamics, leading to a 'culture of boredom' where individuals become 'objectless objects.' Kroker critiques globalization through Marx's lens of streamed capitalism and Nietzsche's insights into emerging nihilism. This work merges critical theory with art and politics, offering a provocative perspective on our technological future and its philosophical implications.

Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill on the digital superhighway are just a couple of things that Kroker and Weinstein explain. Others the theory of the virtual class; virtual ideology; the will to virtuality; the political economy of virtual reality; prime time reports; virtual (photographic) culture; and the virtual history file.

Spasm is the 1990s. A theory-fiction about the crash world of virtual reality, from the cold sex of Madonna Mutant, the pure sex of Michael Jackson and the dead sex of Elvis to the technological fetishes of Silicon Valley. Written from the perspectives of cultural politics, music, photography, cinema and cyber-machine art,Spasm explores the ecstasy and fadeout of wired culture. Here, we suddenly find ourselves the inhabitants of a glittering, but vaguely menacing, technological galaxy where the machines finally begin to speak. Spasm is a book/CD to take along with you on your hacker journey of the electronic frontier.

A thematically focused exploration of feminism in the 1990s. Initiated as a companion text to "Body Invaders" this book traces out the logic of imminent reversibility in received patriarchial discourses in psychoanalysis, art, theory and culture.