Full Description
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.
Contents
1.The Quantum Revolution
Riders of the Information Storm
Theses on the Quantum Revolution
Art as Quantum Gateway
Rebecca Belmore and the Art of Duality
Quantum Vision. Energetic Art
Particle Poetics
Wave Aesthetics
2. Particle Poetics: Street Scenes from the Quantum Revolution
A. Art of the Fourth Dimension
B. Blasts of Graffiti for Life on the Run
C. Cutaways to Street Memories of the Future
D. Dark Matter/Dark Energy
E. "The Last Human Being"
F. Forensic Architecture and the Empire of Crime
G. Gateways to Blue Stragglers
H. Hybrid Bodies
I. Interference Patterns
J. Jet Streams of Gravity Waves
K. Kinetics of Atrocity
L. Lonesome Cowboys to the Stars: Perseverance Has Landed on Mars
M. Macrobursts and Sun Dogs in the Gathering Sky of Global Politics
N. Nostalgia for Nostalgia: The Eclipse of Right-Wing Populism
O. Open-Source Speed Runners
P. Primordial Black Holes
Q. Quantum Bodies: From Louise Bourgeois and Abject Bodies to Siren lll
R. Scorpio Rising
S. Streaming SuperStream
T. Trouble in the Global Village
U. Undone by Screen Addiction
V. Vector Zero Vector
W. Baby Algorithms at Warp Speed
X. X-Raying Scavenger Culture
Y. Yesteryear Futurism
Z. Zoom Kids
3. Wave Aesthetics:
Art of Resurgence
Vectors of Extinction in the Quantum Revolution
Fold 1: Ecological Death
Ecological Death and Fairy Creek
Fold 2: Violent Event Horizons
The Pacific Wall of Kienholz/Lyotard
Counter-Gradient: Autopsy of the Future: Nadia Myre's Indian Act & The Scar Project
Fold 3: From the Slaughterhouse
From the Slaughterhouses to the Butchers to the Tate: Deleuze/Bacon
Counter-Gradient: Wolf Girl: Kiki Smith and the Butchered Self
Fold 4: The Quantum Citizen
TRANS/formers: More than Meets the Eye Duchamp/Lyotard
Fold 5: The Vortex of Immaterial Bodies
Alberto Giacometti and The Quantum Void
Fold 6: Art with the Density of a Black Hole
The Gates of Hell: Rodin and the Promised Land
Counter-Gradient: The World Screen of the Twenty-First Century:
"In the future, everything will be fine"
Datamoshing
Intimacy and Memory for a Time of Lonesome
Remix Identity
Time Tunnelling
Spinning, Dying Neutron Stars from Deep Space
AI Goes Psychic
Harvesting the Brain
4D Organs Looping in the Fifth Dimensional Plane
Hoping for the Best but Mourning for the Rest
From Kathy Acker
Neon Dreams
When Drones Rain Murder from the Sky
Cold War Redux/Drive-Thru Insurgency
Fold 7: Cold Blue with Skies the Color of Melancholy
Quantum Assassin: Jacques Monory
4. Epilogue: I Stepped into The Future and It Was Now
Index
