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22 produkter
How We Became Posthuman
Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
Häftad, 1999
227 kr
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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 …
Unthought
The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious
Häftad, 2017
321 kr
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N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to …
Bacteria to AI
Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts
Häftad, 2025
322 kr
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A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and …
Chaos and Order
Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science
E-bok, 2014
741 kr
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The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural …
Chaos and Order
Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science
Häftad, 1991
297 kr
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The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural …
How We Think
Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
Häftad, 2012
351 kr
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How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for …
My Mother Was a Computer
Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
Häftad, 2005
255 kr
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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' latest exploration …
Bacteria to AI
Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts
Inbunden, 2025
988 kr
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A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and …
Postprint
Books and Becoming Computational
Inbunden, 2021
1187 kr
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Since Gutenberg’s time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she …
Postprint
Books and Becoming Computational
Häftad, 2021
303 kr
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Since Gutenberg’s time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she …
Electronic Literature
New Horizons for the Literary
Inbunden, 2008
1767 kr
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Develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature both draws on the print tradition and requires reading and interpretive strategies. Grounding her approach in the evolutionary dynamic between humans and technology, the author argues that neither the body nor the machine …
Electronic Literature
New Horizons for the Literary
Häftad, 2008
339 kr
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A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature by N. Katherine Hayles, do we have the first systematic survey of the …
Cosmic Web
Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 1984
825 kr
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From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to …
Chaos Bound
Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
Inbunden, 1990
825 kr
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Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesâ•physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theoryâ•signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm ‘orderly disorder.’ …
Comparative Textual Media
Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era
Av N. Katherine Hayles, Jessica Pressman
Häftad, 2013
348 kr
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For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to imagine that writing was nothing more than a means by which writers could transfer their thoughts to readers. The proliferation of technical media …
Chaos Bound
Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
Häftad, 2018
318 kr
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Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesâ•physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theoryâ•signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm ‘orderly disorder.’ …
Cosmic Web
Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2018
318 kr
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From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to …
NanoCulture
Implications of the New Technoscience
E-bok, 2004
308 kr
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"Nano" denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. 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. Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented …
My Mother Was a Computer
Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
Inbunden, 2005
715 kr
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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' latest exploration …
Unthought
The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious
Inbunden, 2017
818 kr
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N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to …
NanoCulture
Implications of the New Technoscience
Häftad, 2004
352 kr
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"Nano" denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. 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.Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented …
