Exits to the Post Human Future + After the Drones (Video)

Guest Speaker: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Writers and Editors University of Victoria Date: November 29th, 2012 Time: 5-6p; 6-8p reception Location: Calit2 Auditorium and Lobby, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego Host: Jordan Crandall, gallery@calit2 [event website]

DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: This lecture by theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker and reception will mark the closing of Phase 3 of Drones at Home, a three-part exhibition in the gallery@calit2. The event will include a short video, After the Drones, with texts by the Krokers as well as video and sound by Jackson 2 Bears. SPEAKER BIO: Marilouise Kroker is Senior Research Scholar at the University of Victoria. She is the author with Arthur Kroker of Hacking the Future. She has co-edited and introduced numerous anthologies including the much discussed trilogy on the politics of the body -- Digital Delirium, Body Invaders and The Last Sex. Together they edit the electronic journal CTheory. Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory and the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) at the University of Victoria, Canada. His most recent book is Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway (University of Minnesota Press: Fall 2012). His many book publications include The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche & Marx_(University of Toronto Press, 2004), The Possessed Individual, Spasm, and Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class (with Michael A. Weinstein).