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How We Became Posthuman
In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "e;bodies"e; that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While …
Bacteria to AI
A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into …
Cosmic Web
From the central concept of the field-which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field- have come models …
Chaos Bound
Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesa*physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, …
Chaos and Order
The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of …
Writing Machines
A pseudo-autobiographical exploration of the artistic and cultural impact of the transformation of the print book to its electronic incarnations.Tracing a journey from the 1950s …
How We Think
"e;How do we think?"e; N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As …
NanoCulture
Nano denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible materials research and engineering at this …
Science Fiction
In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "e;this enormously ambitious posthumous volume,"e; renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument …
Invincible
A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The …
My Mother Was a Computer
We 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 …