My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary TextsUniversity of Chicago Press, 2005. gada 15. okt. - 290 lappuses We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles's latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices. My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: language and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred. My Mother Was a Computer gives us the tools necessary to make sense of these complex relationships. Hayles argues that we live in an age of intermediation that challenges our ideas about language, subjectivity, literary objects, and textuality. This process of intermediation takes place where digital media interact with cultural practices associated with older media, and here Hayles sharply portrays such interactions: how code differs from speech; how electronic text differs from print; the effects of digital media on the idea of the self; the effects of digitality on printed books; our conceptions of computers as living beings; the possibility that human consciousness itself might be computational; and the subjective cosmology wherein humans see the universe through the lens of their own digital age. We are the children of computers in more than one sense, and no critic has done more than N. Katherine Hayles to explain how these technologies define us and our culture. Heady and provocative, My Mother Was a Computer will be judged as her best work yet. |
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... publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI Z39.48-1992 . To my mother , who was not a computer Contents.
... publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI Z39.48-1992 . To my mother , who was not a computer Contents.
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... material help . Alan Liu , a reader for the University of Chicago Press , made many valuable suggestions for revision in a report that was exceptionally helpful . David Toole's astute copyediting made many improvements in the manuscript ...
... material help . Alan Liu , a reader for the University of Chicago Press , made many valuable suggestions for revision in a report that was exceptionally helpful . David Toole's astute copyediting made many improvements in the manuscript ...
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... material was also presented at various conferences and invited lectures , and I am grateful to all those who offered valuable comments that helped me rethink and refine my arguments . Finally , my greatest debt is to my family , and ...
... material was also presented at various conferences and invited lectures , and I am grateful to all those who offered valuable comments that helped me rethink and refine my arguments . Finally , my greatest debt is to my family , and ...
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... material basis for hybrid texts and subjectivities . The thinking I did for my book Writing Machines has been crucial in al- lowing me to work out the arguments advanced here . Writing Machines , How We Became Posthuman , and this book ...
... material basis for hybrid texts and subjectivities . The thinking I did for my book Writing Machines has been crucial in al- lowing me to work out the arguments advanced here . Writing Machines , How We Became Posthuman , and this book ...
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Intermediation Textuality and the Regime of Computation | 9 |
Speech Writing Code Three Worldviews | 33 |
The Dream of Information Escape and Constraint in the Bodies of Three Fictions | 56 |
STORING Print and Etext | 81 |
Translating Media | 83 |
Performative Code and Figurative Language Neal Stephensons Cryptonomicon | 111 |
Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jacksons Patchwork Girl | 137 |
TRANSMITTING Analog and Digital | 163 |
Unmasking the Agent Stanislaw Lems The Mask | 165 |
Simulating Narratives What Virtual Creatures Can Teach Us | 187 |
Subjective Cosmology and the Regime of Computation Intermediation in Greg Egans Fiction | 208 |
Recursion and Emergence | 235 |
Notes | 239 |
Works Cited | 259 |
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My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts N. Katherine Hayles Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2010 |
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