03273nam 2200685Ia 450 99624806680331620220914161336.01-282-53876-49780226321394 (electronic book)0-226-32139-82027/heb05711(CKB)2670000000009714(EBL)488099(OCoLC)609856880(SSID)ssj0000361351(PQKBManifestationID)12117109(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000361351(PQKBWorkID)10366733(PQKB)10321384(MiAaPQ)EBC488099(dli)HEB05711(MiU)MIU01000000000000009797307(PPN)221655506(EXLCZ)99267000000000971419980714d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow we became posthuman[electronic resource] virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics /N. Katherine HaylesChicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press19991 online resource (366 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-32145-2 0-226-32146-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Toward Embodied Virtuality; 2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers; 3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics; 4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety; 5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo; 6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization; 7. Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick; 8. The Materiality of Informatics; 9. Narratives of Artificial Life10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to be Posthuman?; Notes; IndexIn this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the ""bodies"" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans ""beamed"" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that isArtificial intelligenceCyberneticsComputer scienceVirtual realityVirtual reality in literatureArtificial intelligence.Cybernetics.Computer science.Virtual reality.Virtual reality in literature.003/.5303.4834Hayles N. Katherine1943-572243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248066803316How we became posthuman1064432UNISA