How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics / N. Katherine Hayles.
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Chicago, Ill. :
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. Toward Embodied Virtuality
- 2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers
- 3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
- 4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety
- 5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo
- 6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization
- 7. Tuning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick
- 8. The Materiality of Informatics
- 9. Narratives of Artificial Life
- 10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman
- 11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman?
- Notes
- Index.