How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics /
By: Hayles, Katherine.
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1999Description: xiv, 350 pages ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0226321452; 9780226321455; 9780226321455; 0226321460; 9780226321462; 9780226321394; 0226321398.Subject(s): Artificial intelligence | Body, Human, in literature | Science fiction | Human-computer interaction | Humanism | Cybernetics | Computer science | Virtual reality | Virtual reality in literatureDDC classification: 808.80352 HAYItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 808.80352 HAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Lost Checked out | 10/02/2023 | 0082044 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Toward embodied virtuality -- Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers -- Contesting for the body of information : the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics -- Liberal subjectivity imperiled : Norbert Wiener and cybernetic anxiety -- From hyphen to splice : cybernetic syntax in Limbo -- The second wave of cybernetics : from reflexivity to self-organization -- Turning reality inside out and right side out : boundary work in the mid-sixties novels of Philip K. Dick -- The materiality of informatics -- Narratives of artificial life -- The semiotics of virtuality : mapping the posthuman -- Conclusion : what does it mean to be posthuman?