How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics

by N. Katherine Hayles (Author)

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Synopsis of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and...

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 constuction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the humanist subject in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the posthuman . Ranging across the history of technology, cultural studies and literary criticism, the text shows what had erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. The author moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems.

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  • Pages: 360
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 5th March 1999
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780226321462
  • Category: Science

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