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My Mother Was a Computer

Paperback • 2005 • English

My Mother Was a Computer

By N. Katherine Hayles

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About the book

We live in a world, according to N Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles' latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices. "My Mother Was ...Show more

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9780226321486

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

My Mother Was a Computer

Format

Paperback

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