TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayles,N.Katherine
TI  - My mother was a computer: digital subjects and literary texts 
SN  - 0226321479 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - Q342 .H39 2005
U1  - 006.3 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Computational intelligence
KW  - Human-computer interaction
KW  - Computers in literature
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index; Prologue: computing kin -- Part I. Making: language and code. Intermediation: textuality and the regime of computation ; Speech, writing, code: three worldviews ; The dream of information: escape and constraint in the bodies of three fictions -- Part II. Storing: print and etext. Translating media ; Performative code and figurative language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ; Flickering connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork girl -- Part III. Transmitting: analog and digital. (Un)masking the agent: Stanislaw Lem's "The mask" ; Simulating narratives: what virtual creatures can teach us ; Subjective cosmology and the regime of computation: intermediation in Greg Egan's fiction -- Epilogue: recursion and emergence
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