The Quantum Revolution: Art, Technology, Culture by Arthur Kroker Hardcover Book

Description: The Quantum Revolution by Arthur Kroker, David Cook 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us, images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news bombards us, devices connect us, isolation saddens us. Deeply embedded in digital technology, we are the very first inhabitants of life in the quantum zone. The Quantum Revolution is about life today – its entanglements, creativity, politics, and artistic vision. Arthur Kroker and David Cook explore a new way of thinking drawn directly from the quantum imaginary itself. They explain the quantum revolution as everyday life, where technology moves fast, and where, under cover of the digital devices that connect us, the most sophisticated concepts of technology and science originating in mathematics, astrophysics, and biogenetics have swiftly flooded human consciousness, shaped social behavior, and crafted individual identity. The book discusses the concept of the quantum zone as a new way of understanding digital culture, and presents stories about art, technology, and society, as well as a series of reflections on art as a gateway to understanding the quantum imaginary. Richly illustrated with sixty images of critically engaged photos and artwork, The Quantum Revolution privileges a new way of understanding and seeing politics, society, and culture through the lens of the duality that is the essence of the quantum imaginary. Author Biography Arthur Kroker is an emeritus professor and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria.David Cook is a professor in the Department of Political Science and a fellow at Victoria College at the University of Toronto. Table of Contents 1.The Quantum RevolutionRiders of the Information StormTheses on the Quantum RevolutionArt as Quantum GatewayRebecca Belmore and the Art of DualityQuantum Vision. Energetic ArtParticle PoeticsWave Aesthetics 2. Particle Poetics: Street Scenes from the Quantum RevolutionA. Art of the Fourth DimensionB. Blasts of Graffiti for Life on the Run C. Cutaways to Street Memories of the Future D. Dark Matter/Dark EnergyE. "The Last Human Being"F. Forensic Architecture and the Empire of CrimeG. Gateways to Blue StragglersH. Hybrid BodiesI. Interference PatternsJ. Jet Streams of Gravity WavesK. Kinetics of Atrocity L. Lonesome Cowboys to the Stars: Perseverance Has Landed on MarsM. Macrobursts and Sun Dogs in the Gathering Sky of Global PoliticsN. Nostalgia for Nostalgia: The Eclipse of Right-Wing Populism O. Open-Source Speed RunnersP. Primordial Black HolesQ. Quantum Bodies: From Louise Bourgeois and Abject Bodies to Siren lllR. Scorpio RisingS. Streaming SuperStreamT. Trouble in the Global VillageU. Undone by Screen AddictionV. Vector Zero VectorW. Baby Algorithms at Warp SpeedX. X-Raying Scavenger CultureY. Yesteryear FuturismZ. Zoom Kids 3. Wave Aesthetics: Art of ResurgenceVectors of Extinction in the Quantum Revolution Fold 1: Ecological DeathEcological Death and Fairy Creek Fold 2: Violent Event HorizonsThe Pacific Wall of Kienholz/Lyotard Counter-Gradient: Autopsy of the Future: Nadia Myres Indian Act & The Scar Project Fold 3: From the SlaughterhouseFrom the Slaughterhouses to the Butchers to the Tate: Deleuze/Bacon Counter-Gradient: Wolf Girl: Kiki Smith and the Butchered Self Fold 4: The Quantum Citizen TRANS/formers: More than Meets the Eye Duchamp/Lyotard Fold 5: The Vortex of Immaterial BodiesAlberto Giacometti and The Quantum Void Fold 6: Art with the Density of a Black Hole The Gates of Hell: Rodin and the Promised Land Counter-Gradient: The World Screen of the Twenty-First Century: "In the future, everything will be fine"DatamoshingIntimacy and Memory for a Time of LonesomeRemix IdentityTime TunnellingSpinning, Dying Neutron Stars from Deep SpaceAI Goes PsychicHarvesting the Brain4D Organs Looping in the Fifth Dimensional PlaneHoping for the Best but Mourning for the RestFrom Kathy AckerNeon DreamsWhen Drones Rain Murder from the SkyCold War Redux/Drive-Thru Insurgency Fold 7: Cold Blue with Skies the Color of MelancholyQuantum Assassin: Jacques Monory 4. Epilogue: I Stepped into The Future and It Was NowIndex Review "This book bravely takes us through the liquid reality of the technological vortex that is life today in the quantum zone - where the spectrality of our primordial ghost wave/particles collides with the hyper-frequencies of a society already consumed by its own algorithmic data storm - then plots a series of (creative) escape vectors in these electrified times."--Jackson Leween, 2bears, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Indigenous Arts Research and Technology and Associate Professor of Art, University of Lethbridge"The Quantum Revolution is a brilliantly argued book that offers a recipe of insurgent hopefulness for our cataclysmic age of socio/techno/ecological emergency. From ecological decline and digital divide to capital excess and material waste, the quantum zone is theorized by Kroker and Cook as the stultifying condition of the twenty-first century. Readers of this spellbinding critical tale will be enraptured by the authors quantum revolution that reclaims the public sphere through the verve of artistic imagination.--Timothy Murray, author of Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art"The Quantum Revolution captures the cultural phase transitions from particle capitalism(s) to the hyper-waves of careening entanglements of our post-contemporary emergency states and unexpected e-mergences. The Quantum Revolution book is the 62-qubit quantum critical processor we need to dive between hyper-phasing power and superstring bodies co-creating in the hinges of extreme transition."--Ricardo Dominguez, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, and co-founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater 3.0 Details ISBN1487552939 Author David Cook Publisher University of Toronto Press Series Digital Futures Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781487552930 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Toronto Press Subtitle Art, Technology, Culture Place of Publication Toronto Country of Publication Canada ISBN-10 1487552939 UK Release Date 2023-12-20 Alternative 9781487556570 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education DEWEY 530.12 Pages 334 Publication Date 2023-10-30 Illustrations 57 colour illustrations, 3 b&w illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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