Arthur Kroker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.
-- Arthur Kroker

#Memories #Cutting #Army
Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.
-- Arthur Kroker

#Redneck #America #Black
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.
-- Arthur Kroker

#Space #Black #Hollywood
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks
-- Arthur Kroker

#Space #Keys #Discovery
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.
-- Arthur Kroker

#Shopping #Space #Desire
The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.
-- Arthur Kroker

#Real #Mean #Lakes

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

Arthur Kroker famous quotes

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