Re: [-empyre-] Writing Culture

["James Barrett" <jim.barrett@humlab.umu.se>]

I know this was all of two days ago and thus feels quite old in the
conversation (the speed of digital writing!) but Katherine Hayles spoke at
my institution a month ago on her new book, My Mother Was a Computer:
Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.
The video stream and details of this fascinating seminar are here:
http://www2.humlab.umu.se/events/humlabseminariet_ht2005_hayles.htm
and the podcast is here:
http://blog.humlab.umu.se/2005/09/hayles_seminar_available_as_po.html

/jim

> 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/
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>
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