Hayles (English, UCLA) investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. Ranging widely across the history of technology and culture, she relates three interwoven stories: how information came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from material forms; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist subject in cybernetic discourse. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, she provides an account of how we arrived in our virtual age. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
发表于2025-03-31
How We Became Posthuman 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
变成后人类既引起恐怖也带来欢乐,恐怖在于“后”字步步紧逼着人类所剩无几的平静日子,如《西部世界》中德洛蕾丝的复仇,说真正的众神就要来了,他们很愤怒。但欢乐在于或许将人类意识下载到计算机的实践并没有那么容易实现或者令大众接受,具身的人类是数千年历史进化的结果...
评分 评分 评分变成后人类既引起恐怖也带来欢乐,恐怖在于“后”字步步紧逼着人类所剩无几的平静日子,如《西部世界》中德洛蕾丝的复仇,说真正的众神就要来了,他们很愤怒。但欢乐在于或许将人类意识下载到计算机的实践并没有那么容易实现或者令大众接受,具身的人类是数千年历史进化的结果...
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In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.
Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman."
Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems.
Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of wherewe might go from here.
竟然没标记过这本书,惭愧了。Hayles概念中的后人类阶段,不是单纯的带上义肢、电子眼,也不是凌驾在人类种族之上、伴随末日而来的新物种,而是人和信息、智能机器的动态共存。常读常新,有空再读一遍。
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评分因为讨论的还是人类心智与身体的关系,所以赛博格还是其中心,辅以两代控制论的论述。
评分承认并感激人的限度
评分当化学家Hayles转行成为文学批评家之后……
How We Became Posthuman 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书