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Author Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-

Title How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics / N. Katherine Hayles.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  003.5 H421H    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 350 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Toward embodied virtuality -- Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers -- Contesting for the body of information : the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics -- Liberal subjectivity imperiled : Norbert Wiener and cybernetic anxiety -- From hyphen to splice : cybernetic syntax in Limbo -- The second wave of cybernetics : from reflexivity to self-organization -- Turning reality inside out and right side out : boundary work in the mid-sixties novels of Philip K. Dick -- The materiality of informatics -- Narratives of artificial life -- The semiotics of virtuality : mapping the posthuman -- Conclusion : what does it mean to be posthuman?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Artificial intelligence.
Cybernetics.
Computer science.
Virtual reality.
Virtual reality in literature.
ISBN 0226321452 cloth alkaline paper
9780226321455 cloth alkaline paper
0226321460 paperback : alk. paper
9780226321462 paperback : alk. paper
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