N. Katherine Hayles-HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN: VIRTUAL BODIES IN
CYBERNETICS, LITERATURE, AND INFORMATICS. University of Chicago Press.
"investigates the fate of embodiment in a an information age. Ranging
widely across the history of technology and culture, Hayles relates three
interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to
be conceptualized as an entity separate from material forms; the culture
and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the
liberal humanist subject in cybernetic discourse"
a fascinating read--allan
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