My mother was a computer : digital subjects and literary texts / N. Katherine Hayles.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: x, 290 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226321479 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226321479 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226321487 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780226321486 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Computational intelligence | Human-computer interaction | Computers in literature | Virtual reality | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 006.3 LOC classification: Q342 | .H39 2005Other classification: 17.90 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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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