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Title: The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx (Digital Futures) by Arthur Kroker ISBN: 0-8020-8573-3 Publisher: University of Toronto Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: The Will to Politics and the Culture of Ethics...
Comment: When I first came across this outstanding book, I was a little confused as to how Nietzsche and Marx could be read as critics of the technological Enframing, as well as how Heidegger could be read as *politically* radical in any meaningful sense. However, after looking through the various sections dealing with these questions I can see much more clearly now that he is not simply deploying these thinkers in their original bodies, as I was originally thinking, but is instead hybridizing the most critical elements of each of them into a new kind of patchwork, thus allowing each to become much more radical than they would have been prior to this process. Clearly this can be an interesting and productive approach to doing critical theory after the 'death of the author' - there really is no good reason we cannot have for instance, an anarchist Marx, a Marxist Heidegger, or even say, a Nietzschean Virilio (despite his likely protestations). I especially like the way Kroker has been recently emphasizing the importance of bringing back the 'public intellectual', a desire reflected not only in his lecture series and texts accesible for free online, but also in the sympathetic discussion of the antiglobalization movement of the 'digital proletarians' and its unhappy 'double-movement' relationship of resistance to the 'virtual class' - in my mind it is absolutely crucial in our time to tie critical theory to actually existing political struggles and this book does that quite well - well worth the read!