We might forget air, we might forget that we breathe, or how to breathe. Often forgotten is the first example Turing offered of distinguishing between a man and a woman. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature. College In a fine insight, Hodges suggests that "the discrete state machine, communicating by teleprinter alone, was like an ideal for [Turing's] own life, in which he would be left alone in a room of his own, to deal with the outside world solely by rational argument. Moreover, posthumanism has religious significance in and of itself. [full text] N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon, "Virtual Architecture, Actual Media."[full text] In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and . To pose the question of "what can think" inevitably also changes, in a reverse feedback loop, the terms of "who can think.". Stitching together past and present, this study identifies a persistent struggle to make sense of how humans touch and feel machines, with questions about user agency, labor, individuality, and authentic engagement coming to the fore. January 5, 2013, How We Think:Contemporary Technogenesis. The posthuman reformulation of such tools are of significance to political theologys concern with sovereignty, salvation, and binary distinctions particularly the secular and the theological. November 15, 2013, Meaning and Nonmeaning: Consciousness and the Cognitive Nonconscious. This practical urgency is what impels Hayles to use speculative aesthetics not just to think about far futures but to play out the political implications of how we are organizing cognitive assemblages in the present; for instance, in the governance of technical systems like artificial intelligence, even or especially in frameworks that seek to put humans at the center of AI. Reactions to Hayles' writing style, general organization, and scope of the book have been mixed. "Erik Davis, Village Voice, "Could it be possible someday for your mind, including your memories and your consciousness, to be downloaded into a computer?In her important new bookHayles examines how it became possible in the late 20th Century to formulate a question such as the one above, and she makes a case for why it's the wrong question to ask.[She] traces the evolution over the last half-century of a radical reconception of what it means to be human and, indeed, even of what it means to be alive, a reconception unleashed by the interplay of humans and intelligent machines. Narrative: Raw Shark Texts. 1999, 338 pages, 5 line drawings 2008. in English literature from Michigan State University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Rochester in 1977. The Turing test was to set the agenda for artificial intelligence for the next three decades. January 7, 2011, How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine. Turabian The Silent History imagines what would happen when humans can no longer represent themselves in language after a whole generation is born that neither uses nor responds to speech or writing. In Espositos most explicit political theology work, he is concerned with re-working, or rather destabilizing, the essence of political theology. The critical tools we can glean from Hayles thus speak particularly to contemporary cultures in developed societies presently undergoing systemic transformations that are profoundly changing planetary cognitive ecologies (2017, 216). November 12, 2011, Narrative Storyworlds and Experimental Fiction. (Our About page explains how this works.) According to Hayles, most human cognition happens outside of consciousness/unconsciousness; cognition extends through the entire biological spectrum, including animals and plants; technical devices cognize, and in doing so profoundly influence human complex systems. To read their work is to become attuned to a set of dynamics that can be excavated in any given scene: the attachments being made and unmade, the forms of belonging that flash up and dissolve, the feeling-worlds that mediate everyday life, what remains unfinished. Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious: Hayles, N Reading N. Katherine Hayles's latest work reminded me of the advice implicit in an ancient Chinese curse. 4.05 avg rating 806 ratings published 1999 7 editions. The proposition can be demonstrated, he suggested, by downloading human consciousness into a computer, and he imagined a scenario designed to show that this was in principle possible. The we of the title refers to inheritors of the liberal Enlightenment model of the human as essentially a thinking mind more than a mattering body. The late public intellectual Stuart Hall, with his concept of the conjuncture, assists political theology in analyzing our current moment and potential interventions. Writing Machines. N. Katherine Hayles | Scholars@Duke January 5, 2013, Finance Capital and Daniel Suarez's 'Daemon'. Within the field of Posthuman Studies, Hayles' How We Became Posthuman is considered "the key text which brought posthumanism to broad international attention". 2014. A pseudo-autobiographical exploration of the artistic and cultural impact of the transformation of the print book to its electronic incarnations. Whereas How We Think examined how intelligent machines are influencing humans as thinkers (with conscious operations like verbal language, abstract reasoning, mathematics, music), Unthought shows how humans are part of a much broader assemblage of cognizers. N. Katherine Hayles - Wikipedia October 16, 2008, Space and Time in New Media. University of California 41860 [11035]Hayles,Katherine [1388]Invited Lectures Apophenia: Patterns (?) Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious. September 20, 2013, Speculative Gaming and Temporality. Paper $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-226-32146-2. English Reading Room In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinkinghow we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to function. The other entity wants to mislead you. What would it mean for scholarship in political theology to claim monstrosity? Her twelve print books include Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational (Columbia, 2021), Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (Univ. DOI: 10.1177/0263276418818884 Cognition and Computation in the Work of College "[24] Jones similarly described Hayles' work as reacting to cybernetics' disembodiment of the human subject by swinging too far towards an insistence on a "physical reality" of the body apart from discourse. 6 x 9 How We Think represents Hayles interest in the material production and reception of texts, and at the field level, in the digital humanities. Her writing demands change from her readers if they are to follow her on that adventure. We have to feel our way toward change. Noting the alignment between these two perspectives, Hayles uses How We Became Posthuman to investigate the social and cultural processes and practices that led to the conceptualization of information as separate from the material that instantiates it. Here, at the inaugural moment of the computer age, the erasure of embodiment is performed so that "intelligence" becomes a property of the formal manipulation of symbols rather than enaction in the human lifeworld. Asemia becomes a model for imagining more broadly how humans can resist capture by the technolinguistic systems that affective capitalism and info-capitalism depend on. Hayles emphasizes the range of technological and biological decision making that actively constitutes much of our reality while being beyond conscious control - this is the purport of her title. University of Chicago Press: 1427 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 USA | Voice: 773.702.7700 | Fax: 773.702.9756 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 . December 15, 2009, Critical Theory in the Digital Agej". Hayles political move is to replace the self-enclosed human envisioned by Enlightenment liberal individualism with a vision of a material-informational entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction (1999, 3) within contemporary regimes of computation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I recommend it highly. March 28, 2013, Flash Crashes and Critical Finance Studies. [25], Several scholars reviewing How We Became Posthuman highlighted the strengths and shortcomings of her book vis a vis its relationship to feminism. Rather, the important intervention comes much earlier, when the test puts you into a cybernetic circuit that splices your will, desire, and perception into a distributed cognitive system in which represented bodies are joined with enacted bodies through mutating and flexible machine interfaces. December 15, 2009, Effects of Spatializing Software". Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Director of Graduate Studies in the Program in Literature, Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities. A reflection on the political implications of N. Katherine Hayles critical aesthetic inquiry into the ecological relationships between the human and the technological, thought and cognition, and information and materiality. N. Katherine Hayles: Posthumanism as I define it in my book How We Became Posthuman (1999) was in part about the deconstruction of the liberal humanist subject and the attributes normally associated with it such as autonomy, free will, self determination and so forth. If you have the misfortune to live in an interesting era, run. December 15, 2009, Pervasive Computing in LIterature, Art, and the Environment. February 29, 2008, Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Science fiction is a methodological touchstone for Hayles because of the way it inherently combines thinking about technology and our relation to it. Scholars and activists cannot rely on fact-checking or dry reason in this political climate. Her affirmative posthumanism can help expose the latent theologies of any number of anthropocentric theories, but especially traditional liberal humanism and forms of capitalism. Chicago. | One thing that is certain, however, is that intelligent machines will take increasingly active roles in constructing and filtering information for human users. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Rafael Vizcano offers a biographical introduction to the philosophical work of Enrique Dussel, a major figure of the decolonial turn. October 28, 2010, Narrative and Database: Steven Hall's Raw Shark Texts". Althaus-Reids work asks whether Political Theology is capable of accounting for the power of sex, a power that comes to the fore if the theologian focuses on queer bodies. It also refers to sci-fi imaginaries of the cybernetic human as essentially a container for information. N. KATHERINE HAYLES Address Literature Program 2219 Running Pine Court Friedl Building, Box 90670 Hillsborough NC 27278 Duke University 919-732-7235 Durham NC 27708 katherine.hayles@duke.edu Professional Experience Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, Literature Program, Duke University, 2008- . In this way, Hayles speculative aesthetic inquiry joins projects like Jane Bennetts political ecology of vibrant matter and other secular metaphysics that hope to combat the anthropocentrism and narcissism for which the human species is notorious (2014, 177). University of California If you are presently teaching or practicing digital, or a traditional academic in denial, or just curious about the impact of digital technology in the humanities, By making use of the humanist and scientist vocabularies, the book represents a new model of humanist writing, one that is avowedly concerned with the material aspects of epistemological practices., 1. A cyber/bio/semiotic perspective, Human and machine cultures of reading: A cognitive-assemblage approach, Cognitive assemblages: Technical agency and human interactions, The cognitive nonconscious: Enlarging the mind of the humanities, The affectual distinctiveness of big books, Brain imaging and the epistemology of vision: Daniel Suarez's daemon and freedom, Greg Egan's Quarantine and Teranesia: Contributions to the Millennial Reassessment of Consciousness and the Cognitive Nonconscious, Speculation: Financial Games and Derivative Worlding in a Transmedia Era, Cognition Everywhere: The Rise of the Cognitive Nonconscious and the Costs of Consciousness, Speculative Aesthetics and Object Oriented Inquiry (OOI), Stanisaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae": Mirror text to "The Cyberiad", Rewiring Literary Criticism (Review of Mark C. Taylor's "Rewiring the Real: Conversations with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo"), Combining close and distant reading: Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes and the aesthetic of bookishness, Review of Braden R. Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz's "The Techno-Human Condition", Remixed Up (Review of Mark Amerika's "Remix the Book" and Alex Goody's "Technology, Literature and Culture"), Tech-TOC: Complex Temporalities in Living and Technical Beings, Material Entanglements: Steven Halls "The Raw Shark Texts" as Slipstream Novel, 'How We Became Posthuman': Ten Years On (An Interview with N. Katherine Hayles), Sleepwalking into the Surveillance Society, RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive Environments, Narrative and Database: Natural Symbionts (Response to Ed Folsom's "Database as Genre, The Epic Transformation of Archives"), Revealing and Transforming: How Electronic Literature Re-Values Computational Practice, Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere, Narrating Bits: Encounters between Humans and Intelligent Machines, Attacking the Borg of Corporate Knowledge Work: The Achivement of Alan Liu's "The Laws of Cool", Visiting Wonderland (A Riposte to Diana Lobb's "The Emperor's New Clothes"), The Slipstream of Mixed Reality: Unstable Ontologies and Semiotic Markers in "The Thirteenth Floor," "Dark City," and "Mulholland Drive", Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis, Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality, Deeper into the Machine: Learning to Speak Digital, Saving the Subject: Remediation in "House of Leaves", Prognosticating the Present (Review of "Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation"), Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments, Review of Stefan Helmreich's "Silicon Second Nature", Metaphoric Networks in "Lexia to Perplexia", Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia, The Materiality of the Medium: Hypertext Narrative in Print and New Media, Desiring Agency: Limiting Metaphors and Enabling Constraints in Dawkins and Deleuze/Guattari, The Invention of Copyright and the Birth of Monsters: Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's "Patchwork Girl", Cognition on a Desert Island (Commentary on Edwin Hutchins' "Cognition in the Wild"), Simulating Narratives: What Virtual Creatures Can Teach Us, Review of Brian Richardson's "Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative", The Illusion of Autonomy and the Fact of Recursivity: Virtual Ecologies, Entertainment, and "Infinite Jest", Hot List: N. Katherine Hayles on Byte Lit, Corporeal Anxiety in "Dictionary of the Khazars": What Books Talk About in the Late Age of Print When They Talk About Losing Their Bodies, The Posthuman Body: Inscription and Incorporation in "Galatea 2.2" and "Snow Crash", Interrogating the Posthuman Body (Review of Anne Balsamo's "Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women" and Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston's "Posthuman Bodies"), Situating Narrative in an Ecology of New Media, Walking in Water (Review of Michael Joyce's "Of Two Minds: Hypertext Poetics and Pedagogy"), Engineering Cyborg Ideology (Review of Diane Greco's "Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric"), Making the Cut: The Interplay of Narrative and System, or What System Theory Can't See, From Transylvania to Transgender (Review of Allucquere Roseanne Stone's "The War Between Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age), Theory of a Different Order: A Conversation with Niklas Luhmann and Katherine Hayles, Review of Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler's "Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary Scientific Inquiry", Boundary Disputes: Homeostasis, Reflexivity, and the Foundations of Cybernetics, The Embodiment of Meaning (Response to Herbert Simon), Particles and Paste (Review of Kathryn Hume's "Calvino's Fictions: Cogito Cosmos"), Trusting the Material (Review of Steve Heims' "The Cybernetics Group"), The Rip Van Winkle Syndrome (Review of Lorelei Cederstrom's "Fine-Tuning the Feminine Psyche: Jungian Patterns in the Novels of Doris Lessing"), World Without Ground (Review of Francisco Valera, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch's "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience"), Gender Encoding in Fluid Mechanics: Masculine Channels and Feminine Flows, The Borders of Madness (Response to Jean Baudrillard), Constrained Constructivism: Locating Scientific Inquiry in the Theater of Representation, 'Who was Saved? Turing's later embroilment with the police and court system over the question of his homosexuality played out, in a different key, the assumptions embodied in the Turing test. Posthumanism casts questions of, for instance, the moral status of non-human beings, in terms of how agency is distributed through what Hayles calls cognitive assemblages, which are therefore also political assemblages. 1999. Alan M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," Mind 54 (1950): 433-57. Accompanying website at http://newhorizons.eliterature.org. American Comparative Literature Association. January 5, 2013, Machine and Close Reading: Convergent Strategies. Footnotes:1. University of Chicago 1990. [10] Specifically Hayles suggests that in the posthuman view "there are no essential differences or absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulation"[9] The posthuman thus emerges as a deconstruction of the liberal humanist notion of "human." Rather than establishing structural analogies or historical filiations between religion and politics (terms he opens to question), Talal Asad urges attention to shifts in the grammar of concepts across different situations. A short overview of Kojin Karatanis Marxist influenced focus on modes of exchange as revealing the Borromean ring of Capital-Nation-State, and the import of this ring for religion. N. Katherine Hayles humanist inquiry centers on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries and digitally mediated cultural contexts of the U.S. With a background as a scientist, having trained in chemistry in the 1960s before retraining in English literature in the 1970s, Hayles interdisciplinary thinking produced the career-defining concept of the posthuman. Emerging from this nexus of Hayles work, the posthuman reimagines the concept of the human as embodied in ecological relation to other beings, whether biological life, artificial life, or nonlife. The questions Hayles raises about the nature of the post/human are the fundamental ones framed in the exigencies of todays political economy. Winner of the Crystal Book Award of Excellence, Scholarly Reference, Chicago Book Clinic and Media Show 2008. Ropes Lecture. To tell this story, Hayles unites history of technology (e.g. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. Think of the Turing test as a magic trick. How We Became Posthuman YouTube. January 5, 2013, Comparative Media as a Theoretical Framework. 33 halftones Anything less is a disservice to their missions and to the world (2017, 216). "[25] Brigham describes Hayles' attempt to connect autopoietic circularity to "an inadequacy in Maturana's attempt to account for evolutionary change" as unjustified. Hayles uses posthuman as a heuristic term for evoking this story. His/her/its best strategy, Turing suggested, may be to answer your questions truthfully. [26] As Pickering wrote, Hayles' promotion of an "embodied posthumanism" challenges cybernetics' "equation of human-ness with disembodied information" for being "another male trick to feminists tired of the devaluation of women's bodily labor. Amazon.com: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics December 15, 2011, tenure review evaluator : Tenure Review, Cynthia Lawson. Like all good magic tricks, the test relies on getting you to accept at an early stage assumptions that will determine how you interpret what you see later. Books by N. Katherine Hayles - Goodreads July 27, 2013, Technogenesis and Science Studies. 4.10. Meanwhile, popular conceptions of the cybernetic posthuman imagine the body as merely a container for information and code. January 5, 2013, Constructing the Future: 'Speculation' Computer Game. October 15, 2010, Posthuman Reading (and Writing). Meillassouxs thinking of post-Copernican cosmic immanence and cosmic delegitimation constitutes a challenge to political theology as still predominantly Ptolemaic in its assumptions and focus. Thankfully, N. Katherine Hayles's How We Became Posthuman provides a rigorous and historical framework for grappling with the cyborg, which Hayles replaces with the more all-purpose 'posthuman. She holds degrees in both chemistry and English. Read an interview/dialogue with N. Katherine Hayles and Albert Borgmann, author of Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. Hayles defines cognition as any process involving choices about interpreting information in a context that connects it with meaning. TLDR. May 21, 2011, Artificial Nature: Rethinking the Natural. September 24, 2011, Recursive Play in Braid. Expanding our notions of what and who counts as political actors, allowing us to resist theologies of dominion and stewardship, or, in fact, any metaphysics that depends on the uniqueness of the human and the conscious integrity of human intentionality. Her books have won several prizes, including The Rene Wellek Award for the Best Book in Literary Theory for How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Literature, Cybernetics and Informatics, and the Suzanne Langer Award for Writing Machines. She goes on to depict the neurological consequences of working in digital media, where skimming and scanning, or hyper reading, and analysis through machine algorithms are forms of reading as valid as close reading once was.

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