[-empyre-] Writing Culture

[Bill Seaman <bseaman@risd.edu>]

N. Katherine Hayles has had a series of excellent books that have 
been very influential for me. She also talks extensively about 
pattern in How We Became Post Human.

Hayles also is a bridge builder when it comes to art/science (whole 
mind) issues...

Books

The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in
the Twentieth Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984).

Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and
Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).  Translated into
Spanish as La Evolucion del Caos: El Orden dentro del desorden en
las ciencias contemporaneas (Barcelona: Gedisa, 1993).

Chaos and Order:  Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
                               An essay collection edited by Hayles.
              
Technocriticism and Hypernarrative.  A special issue of Modern Fiction
Studies  43, no. 3 (Fall 1997) guest-edited by Hayles, with introduction
                               and article.

How We Became Posthuman:  Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics ,Literature
and Informatics  (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1999.)  Winner of Rene
Wellek Prize for Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-1999, American 
Comparative
Literature Association.   Winner of the Eaton Award for the Best Book 
in Science Fiction
Theory and Criticism, 1998-99.   Named as one of the best 25 books of 1999 by
Village Voice.

Literature for Posthumans, Mediawork Pamphlet Series, MIT Press.
             Anticipated completion, December 2001.

Coding the Signifier:  Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to the Computer. 
             Under contract to the University of Chicago Press.  
Anticipated completion
             December 2002. 

http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles/
--
Professor Bill Seaman, Ph.D.
Department  Head
Digital+ Media Department (Graduate Division)
Rhode Island School of Design
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