How We Became Posthuman: Virtual B- 9780226321462, paperback, N Katherine Hayles

The University of Chicago Press

Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in the information age. It relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological constuction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the humanist \""subject\"" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the \""posthuman\"". Ranging across the history of technology, cultural studies and literary criticism, the text shows what had erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. The author moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel \""Limbo\"" by Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K.\n\nHow We Became Posthuman\nVirtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tr;