# arthur kroker born: 1945 (age 78-79) red rock ontario canada occupations: author - editor - educator - researcher spouse: marilouise kroker ​ ​ (m. 1971; died 2018)​ academic background education: mcmaster university (phd) academic work institutions: university of victoria arthur kroker (born 1945) is a canadian author editor educator and researcher of political science technology and culture # life and career ey earned a phd 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. ey was the editor for the online academic journal ctheory an international journal of theory technology and culture kroker has been an outspoken critic of the transformation of the early internet into a consumer-driven system ("virtual class".) austrian magazine monochrom interviewed ir about ir political motivations in 1996 ey was married to marilouise kroker from 1971 until ir death in 2018 # bibliography # # books **+** technology and the canadian mind: innis mcluhan grant (1984) **+** the post-modem scene: excremental culture and hyper-aesthetics (1987) (w/ david cook) **+** panic encyclopedia: the definitive guide to the post-modem scene (1989) (w/ david cook and marilouise kroker) **+** the possessed individual: technology and the french post-modem (1992) **+** spasm: virtual reality android music and electric flesh (1993) **+** data trash: theory of the virtual class (1994) (w/ michael a. weinstein) **+** hacking the future (1996) (w/ marilouise kroker) **+** the will to technology and the culture of nihilism: heidegger nietzsche and marx (2004) **+** body drift: butler hayles haraway (2012) **+** exits to the posthuman future (2014) **+** technologies of the new real: viral contagion and death of the social (2021) (w/ marilouise kroker) **+** the quantum revolution: art technology culture (2023) (w/ david cook) # # as editor **+** body invaders: panic sex in america (1987) (w/ marilouise kroker) **+** the hysterical male: new feminist theory (1991) (w/ marilouise kroker) **+** the last sex: feminism and outlaw bodies (1993) (w/ marilouise kroker) **+** digital delirium (1997) (w/ marilouise kroker) **+** life in the wires: the ctheory reader (2004) (w/ marilouise kroker) **+** critical digital studies: a reader (2008) (w/ marilouise kroker) // republic of bob