My Mother Was A Computer

Digital Subjects And Literary Texts

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Acknowledgments ix Prologue: Computing Kin 1(14) PART I. Making: Language and Code 1 Intermediation: Textuality and the Regime of Computation 15(24) 2 Speech, Writing, Code: Three Worldviews 39(23) 3 The Dream of Information: Escape and Constraint in the Bodies of Three Fictions 62(27) PART II. Storing: Print and Etext 4 Translating Media 89(28) 5 Performative Code and Figurative Language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon 117(26) 6 Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl 143(28) PART III. Transmitting: Analog and Digital 7 (Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem's The Mask 171(22) 8 Simulating Narratives: What Virtual Creatures Can Teach Us 193(21) 9 Subjective Cosmology and the Regime of Computation: Intermediation in Greg Egan's Fiction 214(27) Epilogue: Recursion and Emergence 241(4) Notes 245(20) Works Cited 265(14) Index 279
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Hayles, N. Katherine
Titel
My Mother Was A Computer
Uitgever
Univ of Chicago Pr
Jaar
2005
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
290
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505 gr
EAN
9780226321486
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228 x 151 x 25 mm
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Paperback / softback

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