My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts /
By: Hayles, Katherine.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: x, 290 pages ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0226321479; 9780226321479:; 9780226321479; 0226321487; 9780226321486.Subject(s): Computational intelligence | Human-computer interaction | Hypertext fiction![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-278) and index.
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.
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.