Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway

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As exemplary representatives of critical feminism, Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture through their writings. Butler leads readers to rethink the boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war. Hayles turns herself into a "writing machine" in order to find a dwelling place for the digital humanities within the landscape of the culture of the code. Haraway is the one contemporary thinker to have begun the necessary ethical project of creating a new language of potential reconciliation among previously warring species.

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""Body Drift" is an elegiac, lyrical, and virtuosic engagement with the three most influential feminist theorists of body drift in which Arthur Kroker emerges a resounding and passionate argument for an ethics of responsibility that is able to manage the clashing perspectives of our 'dark times'. Kroker artfully matches the trilogy of Judith Butler's postmodernism, Katherine Hayles' posthumanism, and Donna Haraway's companionism against the modernist triad of Heidegger's bad conscience, Marx's historical materialism and Neitzsche's nihilism to provide essential and enabling reading that provides a deep, coherent and understanding of the contemporary body in the technological age." --Sara Diamond, OCAD University

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Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Theory and professor of political science at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx. With Marilouise Kroker, he edits the acclaimed online scholarly review CTheory.net.