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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226321460
ISBN-13
9780226321462
eBay Product ID (ePID)
342588
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Publication Name
How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Subject
Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Computer Science, Modern / 20th Century, General, Virtual Worlds, Cybernetics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Computers, Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
74
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-036459
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
003/.5
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Toward Embodied Virtuality 2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers 3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics 4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety 5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetics Syntax in Limbo 6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization 7. Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick 8. The Materiality of Informatics 9. Narratives of Artificial Life 10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman 11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman? Notes Index
Synopsis
In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek -style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here.
LC Classification Number
Q335.H394 1999
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