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My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts / N. Katherine Hayles.
- Title
- My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts / N. Katherine Hayles.
- Author
- Hayles, N. Katherine.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| 2005 | Text | Request in advance | Q342 .H39 2005 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 290 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- N. Katharine Hayles explores how the impact of code on life has become comparable to that of speech and writing - as language and code have grown entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital and old technologies from new ones have become blurred.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0226321479 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226321487 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005006276
- OCLC
- 58456358
- SCSB-10133668
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library