Katherine hayless how we became posthuman provides a rigorous and historical framework for grappling with the cyborg, which hayles replaces with the more allpurpose posthuman. Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, n. Here you will find links to the usual scholarly material, including my cv, books, articles, videotaped lectures, and other material. Katherine hayles professor of literature at duke university is interviewed by stacey cochran for raleigh television network program the artists craft. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible. Katherine hayless latest work reminded me of the advice implicit in an ancient chinese curse. Katherine hayles to admit any salutary effects from digital reading. Katherine hayles and humanist technological posthumanism knowledge is always for.
Between humanities and the digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. Katherine hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. Her background is an interesting one, having obtained a masters in chemistry and then switching over to english, obtaining a phd in english literature. Unthought the power of the cognitive nonconscious n. Close, hyper, machine find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Katherine hayles, how we became posthuman, prologue. Nancy katherine hayles born 16 december 1943 is a postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and american literature. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible materials research and engineering at this level, the scale of individual molecules and atoms. Katherine hayles the university of chicago press chicago er london. Katherine hayles, writing machines request pdf researchgate. In unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinkinghow we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to function. Katherine hayles reading modes, including surface reading, in which the text is examined not for hidden clues but its. Katherine hayles is a postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and american literature. This body of work traces a trajectory that began when, in graduate school, i made the lifealtering decision to switch from chemistry to literature.
Marshalling fresh insights from neuroscience, cognitive science, cognitive biology, and. Katherine hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary litera. Katherine hayles uses three writing machines in depth. Hayles explains that the human condition as it is, is constantly evolving.
Katherine hayles is a professor emerita at ucla and still teaches at duke university in the literature department for graduate studies. I requested references from my professor for my summer reading and he recommended katherine hayles how we became posthuman. Hayles how we became posthuman pdf notable works, how we became posthuman. Researchers in artificial intelligence and robotics often include a timeline stretching into the future in which they predict the convergence between human and artificial intelligence. The power of the cognitive nonconscious university of chicago press, 2017 presents readers with a technically and theoretically rigorous take on what many new materialists refer to as distributed agency. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. Read how we think digital media and contemporary technogenesis by n. In this experiment called writing machines, exploring what the print book can be in the digital age, only part of the story lies in the theories, concepts and examples articulated here. Katherine hayles networked and programmable media are part of a rapidly developing me diascape transforming how citizens of developed countries do business, conduct their social lives, communicate with one another, and. Katherine hayles uses the autobiographical persona of kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of crt screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts. However, instead of venturing out into the unfamiliar terrain of codes and. Digital media and contemporary technogenesis in spring 2012, i had in hand certain digital assets that i had developed for the analyses of some of the chapters, yet whose scope far exceeded what could be included in the print book. Katherine hayles writing machines is a major addition to the scholarship on hypertext and, in general, on the relation of technology to literature.
If you have the misfortune to live in an interesting era, run. Katherine hayles and humanist technological posthumanism. Like most academics, i have watched the growth of the digital humanities in the last decade with interest. Katherine hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. This body of work traces a trajectory that began when, in graduate school, i made the. Katherine hayles uses the autobiographical persona of kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of crt screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books.
Katherine hayles sherryl vint bio working on the intersections of science and literature, n. Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics. Nancy katherine hayles born 16 december 1943 is an american postmodern literary critic. Another part, obvious from the moment you lay eyes on the book, inheres in its visual design. This body of work traces a trajectory that began when, in graduate school, i. How w e became posthuman virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics n. Complex dynamics in literature and science new practices of inquiry hayles, n. Katherine hayles the university of chicago press chicago and london. Katherine hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. Weiss however acknowledges as convincing her use of science fiction in order to reveal how the narrowly focused, abstract constellation of ideas of cybernetics circulate through a broader cultural context. As this volume so clearly demonstrates, hayles is a subtle reader of texts, a knowledgeable critic of new technology, and a fine theorist of culture. Hayles frames writing machines as an experiment in forging a vocabulary and set of critical p. Katherine hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities.
As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally printbased disciplines in the humanities and. When combined with human operators who work with it, atsac illustrates the ways in which technical noncon. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology. Pdf boundaries, control, and the cyborg researchgate.
Scientific field models and literary strategies in the twentieth century. Katherine hayles, who has postgraduate degrees in both chemistry and literature, has always been concerned with combining the two cultures of. Complex dynamics in literature and science new practices of inquiry. When the university of chicago press published my print book, how we think. Katherine hayles address literature program 2219 running pine court friedl building, box 90670 hillsborough nc 27278 duke university 9197327235 durham nc 27708 katherine. The i that writes is never the i that is written and so n katherine hayles chooses a character kaye to tell of her journey of discovery from childhood to the present. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology as both a scholarly tool and a cultural object in. Katherine hayles, writing machines find, read and cite all the research you need on. Katherine hayles is the author of how we became posthuman 4. Katherine hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Katherine hayles cognitive assemblages atsacsheart, fed by information flowing from sensors and actuators throughout the city, is intelligent, adaptive, and evolutionary, capable of modifying its own operations. Katherine hayles born 16 december is a postmodern literary critic, most notable for. Katherine hayles is professor of english at the university of california. She is professor and director of graduate studies in the program in literature at duke university.
Hayles has written a deeply insightful and significant investigation of how cybernetics gradually reshaped the boundaries of the human. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans beamed star trekstyle, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. Read download how we became posthuman pdf pdf download. Request pdf on dec 1, 2003, aliki varvogli and others published n. Nancy katherine hayles born 16 december 1943 is a postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic. Katherine hayles duke university, north carolina du. Hayles contends that the materiality of the work is important to the experience of it and that works in different media require their own media specific analysis msa.
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