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" How we became posthuman "
N. Katherine Hayles
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BL
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581650
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b410869
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| Main Entry
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Hayles, N. Katherine
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How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics /\ N. Katherine Hayles
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, c1999
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1 online resource (xiv, 350 p.)
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9780226321394
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: 0226321398
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9780226321455
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0226321452
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9780226321462
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0226321460
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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?
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Artificial intelligence
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Cybernetics
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Computer science
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Virtual reality
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Virtual reality in literature
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Q335.H394 1999eb
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