Thanks! I just ordered it from Amazon. If it is as good as her writings
on chaos and on cooperation in evolution it is going to be a treat!
Don Mikulecky
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From: "Allan L Combs" <combs@bulldog.unca.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list FIS" <fis@listas.unizar.es>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Interesting books
> N. Katherine Hayles-HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN: VIRTUAL BODIES IN
> CYBERNETICS, LITERATURE, AND INFORMATICS. University of Chicago Press.
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> "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"
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> a fascinating read--allan
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