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How We Became Posthuman

Paperback • 1999 • English

How We Became Posthuman

By N. Katherine Hayles

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About the book

Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in the information age. It relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological constuction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman". Ranging across the history of technology, cultural studies...Show more

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9780226321462

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

How We Became Posthuman

Format

Paperback

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