LEADER 04497nam 22007814a 450 001 9910456324803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-226-32149-5 010 $a1-282-53805-5 010 $a9786612538056 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226321493 035 $a(CKB)2550000000012812 035 $a(EBL)530439 035 $a(OCoLC)630542304 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439947 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12168324 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439947 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10471326 035 $a(PQKB)10604499 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000423677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11267394 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000423677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10470179 035 $a(PQKB)11787098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC530439 035 $a(DE-B1597)523324 035 $a(OCoLC)781285761 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226321493 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL530439 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10383908 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253805 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000012812 100 $a20050302d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMy mother was a computer$b[electronic resource] $edigital subjects and literary texts /$fN. Katherine Hayles 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-32148-7 311 $a0-226-32147-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue: Computing Kin --$t1. Making: Language and Code --$t2. Storing: Print and Etext --$t3. Transmitting: Analog and Digital --$tEpilogue. Recursion and Emergence --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aWe live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles's latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices. My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: language and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred. My Mother Was a Computer gives us the tools necessary to make sense of these complex relationships. Hayles argues that we live in an age of intermediation that challenges our ideas about language, subjectivity, literary objects, and textuality. This process of intermediation takes place where digital media interact with cultural practices associated with older media, and here Hayles sharply portrays such interactions: how code differs from speech; how electronic text differs from print; the effects of digital media on the idea of the self; the effects of digitality on printed books; our conceptions of computers as living beings; the possibility that human consciousness itself might be computational; and the subjective cosmology wherein humans see the universe through the lens of their own digital age. We are the children of computers in more than one sense, and no critic has done more than N. Katherine Hayles to explain how these technologies define us and our culture. Heady and provocative, My Mother Was a Computer will be judged as her best work yet. 606 $aComputational intelligence 606 $aHuman-computer interaction 606 $aComputers in literature 606 $aVirtual reality 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aComputational intelligence. 615 0$aHuman-computer interaction. 615 0$aComputers in literature. 615 0$aVirtual reality. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a006.3 686 $aHN 1091$2rvk 700 $aHayles$b N. Katherine$0572243 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456324803321 996 $aMy mother was a computer$91376600 997 $aUNINA