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Author Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-

Title My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts / N. Katherine Hayles.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  006.3 H421M    Check Shelf
Description x, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-278) and index.
Contents Prologue: computing kin -- Part I. Making: language and code. Intermediation: textuality and the regime of computation ; Speech, writing, code: three worldviews ; The dream of information: escape and constraint in the bodies of three fictions -- Part II. Storing: print and etext. Translating media ; Performative code and figurative language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ; Flickering connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork girl -- Part III. Transmitting: analog and digital. (Un)masking the agent: Stanislaw Lem's "The mask" ; Simulating narratives: what virtual creatures can teach us ; Subjective cosmology and the regime of computation: intermediation in Greg Egan's fiction -- Epilogue: recursion and emergence.
Subject Computational intelligence.
Human-computer interaction.
Computers in literature.
Virtual reality.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0226321479 cloth alkaline paper
9780226321479 cloth alkaline paper
0226321487 paperback alkaline paper
9780226321486 paperback alkaline paper
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