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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)

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:N. Katherine Hayles

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頁數:364

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出版時間:1999-2-15

價格:USD 22.50

裝幀:Paperback

isbn號碼:9780226321462

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圖書標籤:

後人類主義
posthuman
文化研究
社會學
後人類
哲學
Sociology
Philosophy

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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.

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終於讀完瞭這本在科技史和科幻評論之間多次橫跳的書。喜歡三四六章，談控製論的發展史，輸入的密度高一些。關於小說的五、七兩章就讀到幾次犯睏；第九章好一些，但也是它選擇的作品自身足夠緊湊有張力，分析則沒有太多新鮮的意思。作者在首尾都提到本書是要講三個故事，信息的...

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變成後人類既引起恐怖也帶來歡樂，恐怖在於“後”字步步緊逼著人類所剩無幾的平靜日子，如《西部世界》中德洛蕾絲的復仇，說真正的眾神就要來瞭，他們很憤怒。但歡樂在於或許將人類意識下載到計算機的實踐並沒有那麼容易實現或者令大眾接受，具身的人類是數韆年曆史進化的結果...

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Hayles論述的人成為瞭後人類，主要是將人結構成信息的存在，從生物基因到數字編碼；其次輔助以代具進行論證。在控製論的視角下來看後人類，人主要就成瞭一種編碼的存在，但是這種論述在德裏達的語文學中就初現端倪。然而，Hayles是典型的後結構主義而不是解構。她沒有嚮德勒茲那樣去解域，而是試圖以文學文本的含混性來剋服辯證法，她一直強調界限的重要性，但這種界限卻是一種含混的存在。尤其是她在使用格雷馬斯符號矩陣進行總結時，結構性存在的色彩十分濃鬱。這種後結構主義中又有很強的空間性，後人類的存在並不是形而上學的時間，而是空間。雖然Hayles依舊將在場/缺席作為第一軸，但是第二軸非物質性的模式/隨機的確立正是後結構對於所指內容的否定，純粹利用能指的位置進行結構，從而再次結構一個數字的主動且互動的有機體。

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