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N. Katherine Hayles 出版社: University Of Chicago Press 副标题: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics 出版年: 1999-2-15 页数: 364 定价: USD 22.50 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780226321462
In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthu...
In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.
Hayles 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 construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman."
Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems.
Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of wherewe might go from here.
作者简介
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Hayles (English, UCLA) investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. Ranging widely across the history of technology and culture, she relates three interwoven stories: how information came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from material forms; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist subject in ...
Hayles (English, UCLA) investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. Ranging widely across the history of technology and culture, she relates three interwoven stories: how information came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from material forms; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist subject in cybernetic discourse. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, she provides an account of how we arrived in our virtual age. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Toward Embodied Virtuality
2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers
3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety
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Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Toward Embodied Virtuality
2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers
3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety
5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetics Syntax in Limbo
6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization
7. Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick
8. The Materiality of Informatics
9. Narratives of Artificial Life
10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman
11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman?
Notes
Index
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0 有用 Manchild 2015-04-05 02:18:52
因为讨论的还是人类心智与身体的关系，所以赛博格还是其中心，辅以两代控制论的论述。
3 有用 改不了名字 2020-01-07 17:07:33
中英文对照又把关键章节看了一遍。目前阻碍文科生谈后人类、人工智能话题的是：他是文科生。
0 有用 Sea son 2022-03-21 03:49:03
It blows my freaking mind!!
0 有用 Viraganio 2014-05-18 18:25:21
easy but insightful entry
13 有用 綦 2010-04-14 05:01:51
放弃托福、雅思、GRE吧，以后流行图灵测试。
0 有用 theworldsnight 2024-02-11 00:53:37 美国
好久没读过这么让人兴奋的书了！里面还提到了Varela佛学世界观，可惜没有进一步探讨“身体”与情绪的意义。
1 有用 艾兮 2024-01-25 17:17:02 江西
这么说吧完全没看懂除了序言部分，真的好难啊什么控制论熵概念，读英文费劲，读译文更费劲，太多跨学科内容害，没几个地方读得懂。
1 有用 Cantopia 2023-11-30 16:41:26 广东
对“后人类”概念的一次类编年体书写，three waves of cybernetics的思想总结相当到位，但不少章节中的叙述对于未曾接触过太多cybernetics相关内容的读者来说读起来还是比较吃力。
0 有用 Accélération 2023-11-28 00:08:50 北京
不敢说读懂了.... 只是觉得按现在的情况看，Hayles有点乐观了.
0 有用 酸 2023-09-21 01:46:56 英国
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