The Possessed Individual: technology and the french postmodern

Date

1992

Authors

Kroker, Arthur

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

New World Perspectives

Abstract

The Possessed Individual rubs North America against contemporary French thought. What results is a dramatic reinterpretation of French theory as a prophetic analysis of the speed-life of the twenty-first century, and a critical rethinking of the politics and culture of the technological dynamo. This book is a hinge between the mirror of seduction that is culture today and the philosophical ruptures of French thought, from Sartre and Camus to Baudrillard and Virilio. And why the fascination with French thought? Because this discourse is a theoretical foreground to the political background of America: fractal thinkers in whose central images one finds the key power configurations of the American hologram. Read the French, therefore, to learn a language for thinking anew the empire of technology.

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Keywords

French thought, Sartre, Camus, Baudrillard, Virilio, technology, the empire of technology, possessed individual

Citation

Kroker, A. (1992). The possessed individual: Technology and the french postmodern. Montréal, QC: New World Perspectives.

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