Narrating Consciousness: Language, Media and Embodiment
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2008-10-03
Authors
Hayles, N. Katherine
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Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
Abstract
Dr. N. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics(University Of Chicago Press, 1999) which won the Ren Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. Her most recent book is Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008). She is currently a professor in the Literature Program and the Information Science and Information Studies program (ISIS) at Duke University.
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narrating consciousness, embodiment, history of consciousness, posthumanism, information and meaning, theories of mind, cybernetics, history of cybernetics
Citation
Hayles, N. Katherine. "Narrating Consciousness: Language, Media and Embodiment." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 3 October 2008. Presentation.