{"title":"N. Katherine Hayles","description":"\u003cp\u003eN. Katherine Hayles explores the dynamic intersections of technology, culture, and literature, offering profound insights into how digital media reshapes human experience. Her works delve into themes of posthumanism, artificial intelligence, and the evolving relationship between biology and technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis that bridges the gap between computing and the humanities, inviting reflection on how narratives and information systems transform identity and society. Hayles's writing challenges conventional boundaries, making her collection essential for those interested in the cultural implications of technology.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bacteria-to-ai-by-n-katherine-hayles-9780226837475","title":"Bacteria to AI","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In \u003cem\u003eBacteria to AI\u003c\/em\u003e, Hayles develops a new theory of mind—what she calls an integrated cognitive framework (ICF)—that includes the meaning-making practices of lifeforms from bacteria to plants, animals, humans, and some forms of artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a sweeping survey of evolutionary biology, computer science, and contemporary literature, Hayles insists that another way of life, with ICF at its core, is not only possible but necessary to safeguard our planet's future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455528026348,"sku":"9780226837475","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81V8VFIWnQL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774778579"},{"product_id":"postprint-by-n-katherine-hayles-9780231198257","title":"Postprint","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince Gutenberg's time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. \u003cem\u003eN. Katherine Hayles\u003c\/em\u003e traces the emergence of what she identifies as the postprint condition, exploring how the interweaving of print and digital technologies has changed not only books but also language, authorship, and what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHayles considers the ways in which print has been enmeshed in literate societies and how these are changing as some of the cognitive tasks once performed exclusively by humans are now carried out by computational media. Interpretations and meaning-making practices circulate through transindividual collectivities created by interconnections between humans and computational media, which Hayles calls cognitive assemblages. Her theoretical framework conceptualises innovations in print technology as redistributions of cognitive capabilities between humans and machines. Humanity is becoming computational, just as computational systems are edging toward processes once thought of as distinctively human. Books in all their diversity are also in the process of becoming computational, representing a crucial site of ongoing cognitive transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHayles details the consequences for the humanities through interviews with scholars and university press professionals and considers the cultural implications in readings of two novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Silent History\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Word Exchange\u003c\/em\u003e, that explore the postprint condition. 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While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans \"beamed\" \u003cem\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/em\u003e-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In \u003cem\u003eHow We Became Posthuman\u003c\/em\u003e, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualised as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist \"subject\" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the \"posthuman\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel \u003cem\u003eLimbo\u003c\/em\u003e by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. 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