CTheory Live Interview: N. Katherine Hayles
Date
2006-04-26
Authors
Hayles, N. Katherine
Kroker, Arthur
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Publisher
Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
Abstract
N. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author ofHow We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the René Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. Her most recent book is My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. She is currently the Hills Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles, where she has taught since 1992.
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Keywords
electronic literature, posthumanism, cybernetics, electronic textuality, history of cybernetics, intermediation, digital subjectivity, embodiment
Citation
Hayles, N. Katherine and Arthur Kroker. "CTheory Live Interviews: N. Katherine Hayles." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 26 September 2008. Interview.