Re: [-empyre-] Writing Culture

["Christine Goldbeck" <cgoldie@verizon.net>]

Hayles made a complete difference in where I went with my work in digital 
story.

I had  been feeling chagrined about digital storytelling and hyperfiction 
until I read Writing Machines. It was just the panacea I needed. After that, 
I began scrambling for anything I could find by Hayles.

The Glassner text, Interactive Storytelling, is a great primer.

I could go on and on. Such is what happens when one acknowledges the mind's 
associative processes. Or, to put it differently: when one connects 
Goldsworthy, Arbus, Fluxus, Surrealism, documentary photography, art 
history, Welty, John O'Hara, Dickens and New Media theory ;-)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Seaman" <bseaman@risd.edu>
To: <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 2:40 PM
Subject: [-empyre-] Writing Culture


> 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
> Two College St.
> Providence, R.I. 02903-4956
> 401 277 4956
> fax 401 277 4966
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>
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