Subject: On-Line Graphics of Hayles's *Posthuman* Literature
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Sun 07 May 2000 - 21:44:41 MEST
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:44:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: On-Line Graphics of Hayles's *Posthuman* Literature
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Greetings IFETS scholars,
To add some more thoughts and concerns to the -on-going- discussions of
communications technologies and personal indentity..here I wrote short
snippets about Prof. Hayles's posthumanist culture and literature..
It is really amazing to see, the works of Prof. N. Katherine Hayles,
who has created a sensation amongst the scholars round the globe, by
writing a bold book, "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in
Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics". But, most of the scholars
and researchers don't know that, her POSTHUMAN graphical presentation is
also available online to read and use in their teaching schedules. During
my cyberexplorations, I came across her "Posthuman" Hypertext -It looks to
me that she was using the graphical texts in her teaching at the Institute
for Theoretical Physics of University of California, Santa Barbara. at
<http://online.itp.ucsb.edu> Also, a near dear friend of Prof. Hayles,
Prof. Albert Borgmann, who wrote another bold book, "Holding On To
Reality: The Nature of Information at the turn of the Millennium",
has sent me a comment, "Arun, who animates the Internet". I think he is
right to some extent. I and Internet, most of the times, feel is One.
Now..
The On-Line graphical travels begin with "The Human", which can be found
at: <http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/colloq/hayles1/oh/01.html> -This is
the starting thread..your journey will be beginning from this very
hypertext..in all, there are 22 graphical hypertexts are available for
the visit. The graphical travel is a beginning of the references regarding
"Liberal Humanist Subject" to the next "Dismantling of the Liberal Humanist
Subject"..there she tried to classify the *Cybernetics* in Two Periods..to
next the train of graphical hypertext stops at some references regarding
"Virtuality" and "The Posthuman"..and then the significant "Split" is taken
place as, *How Important is Embodiment to Posthuman?* and from the slide 6,
the travel enters into the era of "Contemporary Literature" explaining the
*Images of the Posthuman* and *Materiality*.
From this very pointer at
<http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/colloq/hayles1/oh/09.html>
you will read an excerpt from his latest book..the Excerpt is about *How
Does It Mean To Be Posthuman?* and *What are we to make of the
Posthuman?* The slide further goes to 13 more and by then you will be
reading more great and tantalising references regarding the Posthuman.
Travel of Posthuman ends..and now members might also be interested to
know..that..
Prof. N. Katherine Hayles, has also written several books, "Chaos and
Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science", "Chaos Bound: Orderly
Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science", "The Cosmic Web:
Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century.
Some useful pointers regarding Prof. Hayles's research [might be helping
teachers and colleagues in the teaching schedules and on-going discussion]
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Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers --by N. Katherine Hayles
<http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/individuals/hayles/Flick.html>
Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety
By N. Katherine Hayles
<http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/individuals/hayles/wiener.htm>
From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo -by N. Katherine Hayles
<http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/individuals/hayles/limbo.htm>
A sensational interview/dialogue between two scholars, Prof. Albert
Borgmann and Prof. Katherine Hayles on the issues of humans and machines
is available online at:
<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/borghayl.html>
Thanking you.
Sincerely yours
Arun Tripathi
Research Scholar
at (University of Dortmund)
UNI DO, Germany))
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