How We Became Posthuman

Name: How We Became Posthuman
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226321462
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Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

Autor: N. Katherine Hayles

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Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in the information age. It...

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Autor

N. Katherine Hayles

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1999

Pagini

364

EAN

9780226321462

ISBN

0226321460

Enbook ID

04545719

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

560

Dimensiuni

153 x 227 x 24

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Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in the information age. It 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 constuction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman". Ranging across the history of technology, cultural studies and literary criticism, the text shows what had erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. The author moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel "Limbo" by 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.

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