In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur
Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of
technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and
Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker
argues that every aspect of contemporary culture, society, and
politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to
technology.' Moving between cultural history, our digital present,
and the biotic future, Kroker theorizes on the relationship between
human bodies and posthuman technology, and more specifically,
wonders if the body of work offered by thinkers like Heidegger,
Marx, and Nietzsche is a part of our past or a harbinger of our
technological future. Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche intensify our
understanding of the contemporary cultural climate. Heidegger's
vision posits an increasingly technical society before which we
have become 'objectless objects'-driftworks in a 'culture of
boredom.' In Marx, the disciplining of capital itself by the will
to technology is a code of globalization, first announced as
streamed capitalism. Nietzsche mediates between them, envisioning
in the gathering shadows of technological society the emergent
signs of a culture of nihilism. Like Marx, he insists on thinking
of the question of technology in terms of its material signs. In
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Kroker
consistently enacts an invigorating and innovative vision, bringing
together critical theory, art, and politics to reveal the
philosophic apparatus of technoculture.
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