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title: "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics"
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# How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

**Brand:** n. katherine hayles
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- **What is this?** How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by n. katherine hayles
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## Customer Reviews

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    Hayles delivers a (virtual) reality check.
  

*by N***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 1999*

Finally, a well-informed, razor-smart analysis of the cultural evolution of information as we (mis)understand it today.  Hayles does for information and cybernetics what Foucault has done for sexuality, madness and the penal  system, and she does it in a way that is thorough-going, highly  contemporary, and enjoyable.  Hayles offers the paradoxically devastating  thesis that, in our visions of information, in our approaches to  cybernetics, and in our handling of our own place in the world, Western  culture has been hurtling down the wrong path.  We have forgotten the  physical.  Worse, in order to forget the physical, to elide our own bodies,  we had to forget or disregard a mountain of evidence.  Not content to let  us remain ignorant, Hayles recalls that evidence for us, shows us where  we've come from, where we are, and offers some insight into where we're  going.  This is one of those books that you will tell all your friends  about.

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    Handled in a humanly way
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2021*

Very satisfied that the book arrived ahead of schedule and was in the condition described.I was hoping that I would receive my book, which I needed for my scholarly research, in great condition and on time.The book arrived with no glitches.  Thank you.

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    In this altogether fascinating volume, Katherine Hayles explores the ...
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2018*

In this altogether fascinating volume, Katherine Hayles explores the history of cybernetic theory with reference to its cultural dissemination—primarily in literature. Developing lucid, and remarkably concise, historical reconstructions of the origins of cybernetics at the famous Macy Conferences, Hayles assesses the unfolding of a ‘post-human’ logic that has become pervasive in information theory, artificial intelligence, and even the humanities. Although she is not entirely critical of this development, she is critical of the cyberneticist abandonment of embodiment. While I agree with the general direction of this disagreement, her reasoning is often tendentious and underdeveloped. A fuller, more robust theory of embodiment and in its interactions with cognition would be needed.

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