num_pages: 204
description: With astonishing speed we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones robotic bodies and high-level surveillance are increasingly mainstream. In this age of groundbreaking developments in robotic technologies synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence forming a newly blended reality of machines bodies and affect. Technologies of the New Real draws from critical intersections of technology and society  including drones surveillance DIY bodies and innovations in robotic technology  to explore what these advances can tell us about our present reality or what authors Arthur and Marilouise Kroker deem the new real of digital culture in the twenty-first century. Technologies of the New Real explores the many technologies of our present reality as they infiltrate the social political and economic static of our everyday lives seemingly eroding traditionally conceived boundaries between humans and machines and rendering fully ambivalent borders between the human mind and simulated data.
language: English
title: Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social
publisher: University of Toronto Press