N. Katherine Hayles
Auteur van How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
Over de Auteur
N. Katherine Hayles is distinguished research professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and James B. Duke Professor of Literature Emerita at Duke University. Her books include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999) and toon meer unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (2017). toon minder
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Werken van N. Katherine Hayles
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999) 513 exemplaren
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science (New Practices of Inquiry) (1991) 106 exemplaren
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the 20th Century (1984) 43 exemplaren
Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (2013) — Redacteur — 23 exemplaren
Writing Machines by N. Katherine Hayles, Anne Burdick [The MIT Press, 2002] (Paperback) [Paperback] 1 exemplaar
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From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (Writing Science) (2002) — Medewerker — 15 exemplaren
The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (Routledge Literature Companions) (2012) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics (2005) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 8 exemplaren
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- Hayles, Nancy Katherine
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- Saint-Louis, Missouri, Etats-Unis
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- University of Rochester (PhD)
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- University of California, Los Angeles
University of Iowa
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California Institute of Technology
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Duke University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Eby Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching ( [1999])
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award ( [1999])
Distinguished Scholar Award ( [1998])
Medal of Honor ( [1997])
Distinguished Scholar Award ( [1997])
IAFA Distinguished Scholarship (1997) - Korte biografie
- Hayles was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to Edward and Thelma Bruns. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966, and her M.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. She worked as a research chemist in 1966 at Xerox Corporation and as a chemical research consultant Beckman Instrument Company from 1968-1970. Hayles then switched fields and received her M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1977.
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Very broadly, Hayles uses the concept of a cognitive assemblage to frame the current ideas and concerns around books and print media. Thus the period we're in, postprint, or perhaps more accurately post(exclusively)print. I'll highlight a few of my main takeaways and areas that intrigued me.
I was initially skeptical of the term cognitive assemblage but as she explained both the concept and the thinking behind her choice of words, I came to appreciate it. In particular her decision to use the idea of cognition versus thinking or another similar term. Her explanation that cognition is, and I am very much oversimplifying here, getting information and, based on that information, choosing one of several paths allows for the inclusion of computer-based and even electromechanical operations to be part of a cognitive assemblage. So once all of the steps in a process, whether creating a text or reading a text, are not entirely determined on each iteration by a human we have a sharing of the cognitive aspects and thus a cognitive assemblage. Trust me, she explains this much better than I do.
I found the chapter on university presses to be very interesting. How to meet demands for print and digital, how to look ahead and anticipate future advancements, and how academia, emphasis here on the humanities, can adjust its publishing expectations for hiring or tenure decisions. While this is specific to university presses the ideas and concerns can easily be applied to the publishing sector at large.
Hayles discusses several works that are postprint novels or require a computational element to "read." These analyses are intriguing whether you're familiar with the texts or not. The points I took away had more to do with what the implications are for future works though on my next reading I want to concentrate on the theoretical ideas they represent (either in their narrative or in how they must be "read"). The questions around language, whether words are constrictive or enabling, whether communication would be better or worse if we eliminated the need to put ideas into words, reminded me of a book I recently read, Hegel in a Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek, that looks at what it might be like to communicate directly brain to brain without forming words. Would nuance be gained or lost?
I definitely recommend this to anyone interested in where books and printed media are going. There is a lot of information here and I have no doubt that someone with a stronger background in this area would have gotten a lot more out of it than I did. But the writing is clear and most terms are explained well enough that a reader can get the flow of the arguments. And yes, this is a book that rewards rereading after having had a chance to let the ideas sink in.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (meer)