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BL
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711384
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b533573
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| Main Entry
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Hayles, Katherine,1943-
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| Title & Author
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My mother was a computer : : digital subjects and literary texts /\ N. Katherine Hayles
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2005
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x, 290 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226321479 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226321487 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index
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| Contents
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Prologue: computing kin -- Part I. Making: language and code. Intermediation: textuality and the regime of computation ; Speech, writing, code: three worldviews ; The dream of information: escape and constraint in the bodies of three fictions -- Part II. Storing: print and etext. Translating media ; Performative code and figurative language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ; Flickering connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork girl -- Part III. Transmitting: analog and digital. (Un)masking the agent: Stanislaw Lem's "The mask" ; Simulating narratives: what virtual creatures can teach us ; Subjective cosmology and the regime of computation: intermediation in Greg Egan's fiction -- Epilogue: recursion and emergence
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Computational intelligence
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Computers in literature
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Human-computer interaction
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Virtual reality
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| Dewey Classification
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006.3
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| LC Classification
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Q342.H39 2005
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