How We Became Posthuman

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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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  • 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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这本书不是科幻小说,讲的是一种文艺批评理论,这种理论叫后人类主义,核心是提出一种对人的理解——“后人类”。后人类主义认为,人的存在不是像笛卡尔想的那样就是个意识活动,而是一个复杂的纠缠不清的存在,意识和身体纠缠不清,自我和他人纠缠不清,人和人使用的工具(技...

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这本书不是科幻小说,讲的是一种文艺批评理论,这种理论叫后人类主义,核心是提出一种对人的理解——“后人类”。后人类主义认为,人的存在不是像笛卡尔想的那样就是个意识活动,而是一个复杂的纠缠不清的存在,意识和身体纠缠不清,自我和他人纠缠不清,人和人使用的工具(技...

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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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中英文對照又把關鍵章節看瞭一遍。目前阻礙文科生談後人類、人工智能話題的是:他是文科生。

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What counts as a human?--body and embodiment

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炮轟笛卡爾 誰能想到這是來自上世紀九十年代的寫作...

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