Arthur Kroker

Arthur Kroker (born 1945 in Red Rock, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian author, editor, educator and researcher of political science, technology and culture.

Life and career

He earned a Ph.D. in political science from McMaster University in 1975. In addition to being a Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Kroker serves as director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC), located at the university. Kroker was appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory in 2003. He and his wife Marilouise are the editors for the online academic journal Ctheory.

Bibliography

Books

• Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant (1984) ISBN 0920393004
• The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics (1987) (with David Cook) ISBN 0920393446
• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (1989) (with David Cook and Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0312024770
• The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French Postmodern (1992) ISBN 092039390X
• SPASM: Virtual Reality, Android Music, and Electric Flesh (1993) ISBN 031209681X
• Data Trash: Theory of the Virtual Class (1994) (with Michael A. Weinstein) ISBN 0920393233
• Hacking the Future (1996) (with Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0920393500
• The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche and Marx (2004) ISBN 0802085733

As editor

• Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America (1987) (with Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0920393969
• The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory (1991) (with Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0312052979
• The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies (1993) (with Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0920393373
• Digital Delirium (1997) (with Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0920393713
• Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader (2004) (with Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0920393713
• Critical Digital Studies: A Reader (2008) (with Marilouise Kroker) ISBN 0802095461

External links

• Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
• CTheory.net
• Profile as Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria
• Profile as Canadian Research Chairholder
• Canadian Interviews. Arthur Kroker, 'What to Make of Thought?' July, 2009.