Overview

We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us, images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news bombards us, devices connect us, isolation saddens us. Deeply embedded in digital technology, we are the very first inhabitants of life in the quantum zone. The Quantum Revolution is about life today – its entanglements, creativity, politics, and artistic vision. Arthur Kroker and David Cook explore a new way of thinking drawn directly from the quantum imaginary itself. They explain the quantum revolution as everyday life, where technology moves fast, and where, under cover of the digital devices that connect us, the most sophisticated concepts of technology and science originating in mathematics, astrophysics, and biogenetics have swiftly flooded human consciousness, shaped social behavior, and crafted individual identity. The book discusses the concept of the quantum zone as a new way of understanding digital culture, and presents stories about art, technology, and society, as well as a series of reflections on art as a gateway to understanding the quantum imaginary. Richly illustrated with sixty images of critically engaged photos and artwork, The Quantum Revolution privileges a new way of understanding and seeing politics, society, and culture through the lens of the duality that is the essence of the quantum imaginary.

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Author:   Arthur Kroker ,  David Cook
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781487552930

ISBN 10:   1487552939
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   30 October 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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"""This book bravely takes us through the liquid reality of the technological vortex that is life today in the quantum zone - where the spectrality of our primordial ghost wave/particles collides with the hyper-frequencies of a society already consumed by its own algorithmic data storm - then plots a series of (creative) escape vectors in these electrified times.""--Jackson Leween, 2bears, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Indigenous Arts Research and Technology and Associate Professor of Art, University of Lethbridge ""The Quantum Revolution is a brilliantly argued book that offers a recipe of insurgent hopefulness for our cataclysmic age of socio/techno/ecological emergency. From ecological decline and digital divide to capital excess and material waste, the quantum zone is theorized by Kroker and Cook as the stultifying condition of the twenty-first century. Readers of this spellbinding critical tale will be enraptured by the authors' quantum revolution that reclaims the public sphere through the verve of artistic imagination.--Timothy Murray, author of Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art ""The Quantum Revolution captures the cultural phase transitions from particle capitalism(s) to the hyper-waves of careening entanglements of our post-contemporary emergency states and unexpected e-mergences. The Quantum Revolution book is the 62-qubit quantum critical processor we need to dive between hyper-phasing power and superstring bodies co-creating in the hinges of extreme transition.""--Ricardo Dominguez, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, and co-founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater 3.0"

"""This book bravely takes us through the liquid reality of the technological vortex that is life today in the quantum zone - where the spectrality of our primordial ghost wave/particles collides with the hyper-frequencies of a society already consumed by its own algorithmic data storm - then plots a series of (creative) escape vectors in these electrified times."" - Jackson Leween, 2bears, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Indigenous Arts Research and Technology and Associate Professor of Art, University of Lethbridge ""The Quantum Revolution captures the cultural phase transitions from particle capitalism(s) to the hyper-waves of careening entanglements of our post-contemporary emergency states and unexpected e-mergences. The Quantum Revolution book is the 62-qubit quantum critical processor we need to dive between hyper-phasing power and superstring bodies co-creating in the hinges of extreme transition."" - Ricardo Dominguez, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, and co-founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater 3.0 ""The Quantum Revolution is a brilliantly argued book that offers a recipe of insurgent hopefulness for our cataclysmic age of socio/techno/ecological emergency. From ecological decline and digital divide to capital excess and material waste, the quantum zone is theorized by Kroker and Cook as the stultifying condition of the twenty-first century. Readers of this spellbinding critical tale will be enraptured by the authors' quantum revolution that reclaims the public sphere through the verve of artistic imagination. - Timothy Murray, author of Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art"

Author Information

Arthur Kroker is an emeritus professor and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria. David Cook is a professor in the Department of Political Science and a fellow at Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

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