The Last Sex
Worth buying if: you follow media theory and want Arthur Kroker's take on technology and sexuality.
Skip it if: you expect a contemporary handbook on social media or modern tech policy.
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Summary
In The Last Sex (1993), Arthur Kroker interrogates how digital media, biotechnology, and late capitalism reshape desire, gender, and public life across essays that blend theory, polemic, and cultural commentary.
Why this book now
Revisit Kroker's 1993 perspective on media and biotechnology to trace the roots of today's debates about tech, gender, and digital intimacy.
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- you follow media theory and want Arthur Kroker's take on technology and sexuality.
- you study cultural critique of biotechnology, cyberspace, and late capitalism.
- you expect a contemporary handbook on social media or modern tech policy.
- you prefer fiction or personal memoir over theoretical cultural essays.
- You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780333605196
Worth buying if: you follow media theory and want Arthur Kroker's take on technology and sexuality.
Skip it if: you expect a contemporary handbook on social media or modern tech policy.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At roughly 232 pages, The Last Sex is a moderate commitment of concentrated, essay-driven reading—best approached in focused sittings rather than casual skimming.
What stands out here
This St. Martin's Press 1993 edition foregrounds Kroker's early cyberculture interventions and critiques of biotechnology within cultural theory.
Best way to approach it
Approach The Last Sex with attention to Kroker's dense arguments: annotate passages, pause to reflect on examples of media and biotech he invokes, and cross-reference related media-theory terms.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780333605196
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