How We Became Posthuman: (Record no. 12595)
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| control field | 20221102122948.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 98036459 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780226321462 (pbk.) |
| Terms of availability | $22.50 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | IIMU |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 003.5 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hayles, N. Katherine, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1943- |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | How We Became Posthuman: |
| Remainder of title | Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | N. Katherine Hayles. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | University of Chicago Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1999. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Chicago, Ill. : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 350 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Toward Embodied Virtuality 2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers 3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics 4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety 5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetics Syntax in Limbo 6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization 7. Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick 8. The Materiality of Informatics 9. Narratives of Artificial Life 10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman 11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman? Notes Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the “bodies” that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans “beamed” Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles 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 construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist “subject” in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the “posthuman.“ Ranging 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 Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick’s literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here. |
| Expansion of summary note | Taken from the Publisher's Site. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Artificial intelligence. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cybernetics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computer science. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Virtual reality. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Virtual reality in literature. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Publisher's Description and Content Page |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3769963.html |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Monograph |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Materials specified (bound volume or other part) | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Inventory number | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| pbk. | Indian Institute of Management Udaipur | Indian Institute of Management Udaipur | A1/4 | 2022-09-12 | Segment Book Distributors | 1397.25 | 64193 - 02/08/2022 | 003.5 HNK | 005358 | 2022-10-14 | 1 | 1640.25 | 2022-09-12 | Monograph |