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How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics
N. Katherine Hayles
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Prologue (page xi)
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1. Toward Embodied Virtuality (page 1)
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2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers (page 25)
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3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics (page 50)
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4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety (page 84)
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5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo (page 113)
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6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization (page 131)
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7. Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick (page 160)
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8. The Materiality of Informatics (page 192)
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9. Narratives of Artificial Life (page 222)
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10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman (page 247)
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11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman? (page 283)
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Notes (page 293)
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Index (page 325)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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MLR | 96.1 (Jan. 2001): 143-144 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3735725 |
ConL | 42.3 (Autumn 2001): 617-631 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1208998 |
TC | 41.2 (Apr. 2000): 392-395 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147527 |
ISIS | 91.3 (Sep. 2000): 639-640 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/237992 |
SIG | 27.2 (Winter 2002): 565-569 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175794 |
CON | 11.1 (Winter 2003): 126-129 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v011/11.1baldwin.html |
CLS | 39.3 (2002): 259-262 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_literature_studies/v039/39.3miall.html |
MFS | 45.4 (Winter 1999): 1096-1098 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v045/45.4turner.html |
Citable Link
Published: c1999
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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