My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts /
Hayles, N. Katherine.
My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts / N. Katherine Hayles. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. - x, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index.
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.
0226321479 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226321479 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226321487 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226321486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005006276
GBA566786 bnb
013269397 Uk
Human-computer interaction.
Computers in literature.
Virtual reality.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Q342 / .H39 2005
My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts / N. Katherine Hayles. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. - x, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index.
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.
0226321479 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226321479 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226321487 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226321486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005006276
GBA566786 bnb
013269397 Uk
Human-computer interaction.
Computers in literature.
Virtual reality.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Q342 / .H39 2005