After the Last Man Excurses to the Limits of

"In this monograph, Toivo Koivukoski explores the circumstances that have led modern society to use the concept of progress as a surrogate cosmology that gives individuals a sense of place and purpose. By linking various historical paradigms from German Idealist philosophy to contemporary philosophies of technology, this work of political theory describes an alternative, immanent pattern of development that is, in a sense, driven by its own unintended consequences. The meditations outlined within this book map out the hypertext pathways of our global system, making its constitutive relations and underlying thought processes transparent."--BOOK JACKET.

Toivo Koivukoski is assistant professor of political science at Nipissing University in Ontario, Canada.

Thinking Technology to its Ends	p. 1
The fragility of technology	p. 1
Life inside the technological system	p. 2
Like water to fish	p. 7
Platitude #1:	p. 8
Interstice	p. 9
Watching war	p. 10
A global event	p. 11
System logic	p. 13
Angelus Novus	p. 20
Apo-stasis	p. 23
Shadows on the wall	p. 26
Historical materialism unplugged	p. 26
Multitasking our minds	p. 28
From a Posthistorical Worldview	p. 35
Trans-humus	p. 35
Transhumant	p. 39
On a second-hand greeting: "Welcome to the Desert of the Real"	p. 39
History is an act that went walking	p. 43
Platitude #2:	p. 45
The hopeful science	p. 46
On the post-modern architecture of the mind	p. 50
The relief of the human condition	p. 52
Black-box	p. 57
On a word: "technology"	p. 59
Language lost	p. 64
The hyper-reality of fish	p. 66
Sign language	p. 69
Closed circuit love	p. 70
Being on tv	p. 71
Self as phantasmagoria	p. 72
Clarification	p. 75
Experiments in Posthumanism	p. 81
On being human	p. 81
Savage machines	p. 82
On being real	p. 84
Configurations of reality	p. 85
What is the real?	p. 86
The habit of transcendence	p. 89
Naked thought	p. 90
World on edge	p. 92
A new orbit	p. 93
Technological Imperium and its Limits	p. 95
Another side of the dialectic	p. 95
After the last man	p. 101
Inside the spectacle	p. 102
The state as mechanical man	p. 105
A prosthetic body politic	p. 106
World on automatic	p. 108
Killing for reality	p. 109
Surrealism and the American geopolitical imagination	p. 111
The enemy as imperial excess	p. 112
The imperial perspective	p. 113
Index	p. 117
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After the Last Man Excurses to the Limits of the Technological System

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