Ah, the famous Quaker, quacker, cracker quadrant (all of which
have been iON's designations, depending on his mood).
Thanks, #1. Downloaded and listening...
Bob and Dave Worcester are both Quakers, by the way. Every time
they get on the phone together a big earthquake erupts somewhere.
I believe that Bob has said that Kroker was the closest of his "holy offices"
to accurately describe, or forecast the circumstances of the chip body
landscape.
He does place Kroker in the penultimate position to his (the final) quadrant,
Quote:
...
My [Bob's] epyllion (little epic) Phatic Communion with Bob Dobbs is not only a
portrait of a tetrad-manager but includes the sub-plot of the xenochronous ("estranged,
deviant, double-purposed, determined/somnambulistic synchronicity") decad-dancer in
action:
with Lyndon LaRouche representing the monad,
William Irwin Thompson the dyad,
Marshall McLuhan the triad,
Arthur Kroker the tetrad, and
Bob Dobbs the pentad.
...
My [Bob's] epyllion (little epic) Phatic Communion with Bob Dobbs is not only a
portrait of a tetrad-manager but includes the sub-plot of the xenochronous ("estranged,
deviant, double-purposed, determined/somnambulistic synchronicity") decad-dancer in
action:
with Lyndon LaRouche representing the monad,
William Irwin Thompson the dyad,
Marshall McLuhan the triad,
Arthur Kroker the tetrad, and
Bob Dobbs the pentad.
...
SOURCE - http://goo.gl/nlt5E
A couple of short excerpts on Arthur Kroker:
Quote:
Arthur Kroker (born 1945 in Red Rock, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian author, editor,
educator and researcher of political science, technology and culture.
...
He earned a Ph.D. in political science from McMaster University in 1975. In addition to
being a Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Kroker serves as
director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC), located at the
university. Kroker was appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture
and Theory in 2003. He and his wife Marilouise are the editors for the online academic
journal Ctheory.
...
educator and researcher of political science, technology and culture.
...
He earned a Ph.D. in political science from McMaster University in 1975. In addition to
being a Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Kroker serves as
director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC), located at the
university. Kroker was appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture
and Theory in 2003. He and his wife Marilouise are the editors for the online academic
journal Ctheory.
...
SOURCE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kroker
Also,
Quote:
Ira meets up with a guy who's been called the McLuhan of the nineties, technology critic
Arthur Kroker. Jack Kerouac meets cyberpunk.
Here are some facts you should know about Arthur Kroker. He's 49 years old. He grew up
in the small northern Ontario mill town of Red Rock. He left there at age 17 to join a
seminary.
He wanted to become a priest. He's a tenured faculty member at Concordia University.
He teaches political theory from a leftist perspective. He and his wife and longtime
collaborator Marilouise live in a comfortable renovated house in downtown Montreal.
They don't own a car.
Do you think you're getting the picture?
Well, here are some other facts you should know about Arthur Kroker. [CD sounds]. A
couple of years ago he put out a CD called Spasm, full of bizarre, electroncially sampled
music. [CD sounds] He took the CD on the road with a band called Sex Without Secretions.
He and Marilouise write a lot about sex of various kinds. They publish an electronic journal.
Arthur likes to wear leather.
Cutting edge writers and artists across North America consider him to be on the vanguard
of postmodern culture. He gets invited to speak all over the world. And that's because
Arthur Kroker may be the most interesting thinker about culture and technology that this
country has produced since Marshall McLuhan. [CD sounds] Which is why if you're going to
paint a true picture of Arthur Kroker, you'll need a very wide canvas and lots of paint.
[Part of Kroker lecture]
And that's what people at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University discovered last week
when Arthur and Marilouise Kroker came to speak. They'd been invited there by the Art
Department. About a hundred and fifty faculty and curious students were on hand. There
was a smattering of nose rings and day glo hair and an attractive young couple in full formal
wedding attire participating in their own performance art project. Few people in the crowd
knew very much about these Canadian visitors. Most were anticipating the usual sort of art
lecture, a heavy dose of theory mixed with a few slides.
[Excerpt from performance]
What they got instead was a multi-media assault called "Stories for the Flesh Eating Nineties"
featuring such tales as "Dead dogs and daddies under the Christmas tree," "Shopping for Jesus,"
and "Las Vegas Theme Park" all served up by the middle aged couple dressed in black at the
front of the hall.
...
Arthur Kroker. Jack Kerouac meets cyberpunk.
Here are some facts you should know about Arthur Kroker. He's 49 years old. He grew up
in the small northern Ontario mill town of Red Rock. He left there at age 17 to join a
seminary.
He wanted to become a priest. He's a tenured faculty member at Concordia University.
He teaches political theory from a leftist perspective. He and his wife and longtime
collaborator Marilouise live in a comfortable renovated house in downtown Montreal.
They don't own a car.
Do you think you're getting the picture?
Well, here are some other facts you should know about Arthur Kroker. [CD sounds]. A
couple of years ago he put out a CD called Spasm, full of bizarre, electroncially sampled
music. [CD sounds] He took the CD on the road with a band called Sex Without Secretions.
He and Marilouise write a lot about sex of various kinds. They publish an electronic journal.
Arthur likes to wear leather.
Cutting edge writers and artists across North America consider him to be on the vanguard
of postmodern culture. He gets invited to speak all over the world. And that's because
Arthur Kroker may be the most interesting thinker about culture and technology that this
country has produced since Marshall McLuhan. [CD sounds] Which is why if you're going to
paint a true picture of Arthur Kroker, you'll need a very wide canvas and lots of paint.
[Part of Kroker lecture]
And that's what people at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University discovered last week
when Arthur and Marilouise Kroker came to speak. They'd been invited there by the Art
Department. About a hundred and fifty faculty and curious students were on hand. There
was a smattering of nose rings and day glo hair and an attractive young couple in full formal
wedding attire participating in their own performance art project. Few people in the crowd
knew very much about these Canadian visitors. Most were anticipating the usual sort of art
lecture, a heavy dose of theory mixed with a few slides.
[Excerpt from performance]
What they got instead was a multi-media assault called "Stories for the Flesh Eating Nineties"
featuring such tales as "Dead dogs and daddies under the Christmas tree," "Shopping for Jesus,"
and "Las Vegas Theme Park" all served up by the middle aged couple dressed in black at the
front of the hall.
...
SOURCE - http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/kintvw.htm
I've just started listening to Bob's analysis, and he starts off by providing a setting for the "Kroker
quadrant" (of his "Tiny Note" chart; AKA "a chain letter of phase-shifts. XENOCHRONOUS BOB'S
TINY NOTE = THE GRAND WAZOO'S DECAD-DANCE. Cyclotron of Holeopathic Cliche-Probes.
( "causes" merging with effects ))".
Bob starts by stating that this quadrant (which is actually 1945 - 1960 being replayed from 1972 -
1977 and peaking / crystallizing in 1980) is characterized by a recession occurring in the U.S., the
mood of which is represented by the Bee Gee's song, Staying Alive (i.e., a notion of simply
trying to survive; stay alive).
LINK TO BOB'S CHART - http://www.earmap.com/tinynote/tinynote.html
The Kroker quadrant is toward the bottom of the chart (see below).
You'll note (for those unfamiliar with Bob's chart) at the center column that various governing
bodies are indicated (starting from the top), including "World Government", "Satellite Government",
etc., and that the last governing body is "Lockdown BobRule" (also, in the same quadrant, to the
right, the Second Coming; iON).
Bob reflects on this same chart after iON's appearance in a thread entitled, "Bob Dobbs' New PositiON
on the Tiny Note Chart" - http://www.resonantnode.com/ion/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=701&hilit=tiny+note
Further links:
http://krokers.net (If you click on "Media", you can see Arthur and Marilouise in their own words)
http://ctheory.concordia.ca/krokers/grace.html
http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/kintvw.htm (article excerpt above)
Now to hear what Bob has to say...