Website Support Art. Rather, embodiment makes clear that thought is a much broader cognitive function depending for its specificities on the embodied form enacting it. What [Henrys] oeuvre offers political theology is a reimagining of what constitutes life togetheran attention to Life and thereby, spirituality. In the paper itself, however, nowhere does Turing suggest that gender is meant as a counterexample; instead, he makes the two cases rhetorically parallel, indicating through symmetry, if nothing else, that the gender and the human/machine examples are meant to prove the same thing. 1 Hayles' previous works include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, I recommend it highly. She holds degrees in both chemistry and English. Cavareros feminist theory of nonviolence takes the biblical commandment of Thou Shall Not Kill as its starting point. We launched this series to make available theoretical resources that keep pace with the concerns raised by those working with political theology today, whose interests are increasingly tied not only to questions of genealogy, speculation, and political modernity, but also to questions of race, colonialism, gender, sexuality, disability, ecology, labor, finance capitalism, and economies of affect. January 5, 2013, Speculative Aesthetics: Object Oriented Inquiry (OOI). New Media Soc. Thus, Hayles links this to an overall cultural perception of virtuality and a priority on information rather than materiality. What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg? N. Katherine Hayles, the James B. Duke Professor of Literature Emerita at Duke University and Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angles, teaches and writes on the relations of literature, science, and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.She has published ten books and over one hundred peer-reviewed articles, and she is a . May 30, 2008, Software Studies and Electronic Literature. Pilgrim Lifetime Achievement Award. Perhaps it would mean focusing on underappreciated aspects of the Christian tradition, and other religious traditions, particularly those developed by womens intellectual labor. 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. She received her B.S. [24], Reception of Hayles' Construction of the Posthuman Subject, Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, "Citations search: "N. Katherine Hayles" (Google Scholar)", "N. 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Katherine Hayles speaking at the Tate Modern, Webcast of N. Katherine Hayles speaking at the National Humanities Center, An interview/dialogue with Albert Borgmann and N. Katherine Hayles on humans and machines, Video of lecture given by Hayles at The Computational Turn (Swansea), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=N._Katherine_Hayles&oldid=1150115140, Eby Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, UCLA, 1999, Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1999, Bellagio Residential Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 1999, Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Rochester, 1998, Medal of Honor, University of Helsinki, 1997, Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Fantastic in the Arts, 1997, "A Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, a fellowship at the National Humanities Center and two Presidential Research Fellowships from the University of California. September 20, 2013, Speculative Gaming and Temporality. December 15, 2009, Digital Humanities 2.0,. November 21, 2008, Architecture as Medium. If you have the misfortune to live in an interesting era, run. Fellowship. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature. As with Darwinian evolution, evolution by technogenesis is not about progress and offers no guarantees that the dynamic transformations taking place between humans and technics are moving in a positive direction (2012, 81). Hayles then switched fields and received her M.A. So, reasoning about the posthuman condition is always already part of the religious, secular, and hybrid sense-making of the postsecular public sphere, especially as it grapples with technological change. | 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 . His conviction and the court-ordered hormone treatments for his homosexuality tragically demonstrated the importance of doing over saying in the coercive order of a homophobic society with the power to enforce its will upon the bodies of its citizens. The ethical imperative of such a move is made apparent as Hayles mines speculative fiction such as The Silent History (Horowitz, Derby, Moffett 2014) for resources that value the human for its embodied cognitive capacities, and not just its supposedly definitive power to do thinking in symbolic language. October 22, 2010, Telegraph Code Books: The Place of the Human. Hayles was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to Edward and Thelma Bruns. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. 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- . Reading N. Katherine Hayles's latest work reminded me of the advice implicit in an ancient Chinese curse. Quijano reimagines the long-lasting and contemporary status of colonialism seen through the lenses of race, modernity/rationality, and economic exploitation, encouraging us to produce theological and political critiques from the ever-enduring nature of coloniality. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesisthe belief that humans and technics are coevolvingand advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa. In the progression from Turing to Moravec, the part of the Turing test that historically has been foregrounded is the distinction between thinking human and thinking machine. He/she/it will try to reproduce through the words that appear on your terminal the characteristics of the other entity. The project of articulating a type of affirmative posthumanism would become the focus of her two later monographs. 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. 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. While Carl Schmitt claims that the enemy constitutes the political, his various writings largely ignore the historical and discursive evolution of the enemy. Rachel Plotnick. Duke University ': Families, Snitches, and Recuperation in Pynchon's 'Vineland', Postmodern Parataxis: Embodied Texts, Weightless Information, Designs on the Body: Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, and the Play of Metaphor, Designs on the body: Norbert Wiener, cybernetics, and the play of metaphor, Chaos as Orderly Disorder: Shifting Ground in Literature and Science, Fractured Mandala: The Inescapable Ambiguities of "Gravity's Rainbow" (Review of Steven Weisenberg's "Companion to "Gravity's Rainbow""), Two Voices, One Channel: Equivocation in Michel Serres, Text Out of Context: Situating Postmodernism in an Information Society, Space for Writing: Stanislaw Lem and the Dialectic 'That Guides My Pen', Anger in Different Voices: Carol Gilligan and "The Mill on the Floss", The Nature of Women (Review of Linda Woodbridge's "Women and the English Renaissance"), Women, Literature, and a Small-Town Library, The Perils of Theory (Review of Robert Nadeau's "Readings from the New Book on Nature: Physics and Metaphysics in the Modern Novel"), Cosmology and the Point of (No) Return in "Gravity's Rainbow", Making a Virtue of Necessity: Pattern and Freedom in Nabokov's "Ada", The Ambivalent Approach: D. H. Lawrence and the New Physics, An Imperfect Art: Competing Patterns in "More Than Human", The Absence of a Detectable PotentialDependence of the Transfer Coefficient in the Cr+3/Cr+2 Reaction, Schizoid Android: Cybernetics and the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick, Three species challenges: Toward a general ecology of cognitive assemblages, The cognitive nonconscious and the new materialisms, Beyond Human Scale: Steve Tomasula's "The Book of Portraiture", The Cognitive Nonconscious and the Larger Landscape, Unfinished work: From cyborg to cognisphere, Virtual, Actual, Ineffable: Architecture and Media in the Age of Computation, How we think: Transforming power and digital technologies, Media, Materiality, and the Human: A Conversation with N. Katherine Hayles, Navigating the Cognisphere: Meditations on Visualization, Memory, Database, and Narrative, Mapping Time, Charting Data: The Spatial Aesthetic of Mark Z. Danielewskis "Only Revolutions", Complex Temporalities in Living and Technical Beings (Komplexe Zeitstrukturen lebender und technischer Wesen), The Future of Literature: Complex Surfaces of Electronic Texts and Print Books, The Materiality of Informatics: Audiotape and Its Cultural Niche, Distributed Cognition at/in Work: Strickland, Lawson Jaramillo, and Ryans "slippingglimpse", (Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem's 'The Mask', Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence, Is utopia obsolete? Bibliovault Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. by N. Katherine Hayles Winner of the 2003 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form presented by the Media Ecology Association (MEA) $29.95 Paperback Hardcover 144 pp., 6 x 8 in, 56 b&w illus. N. Katherine Hayles is the Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University. November 15, 2013, Meaning and Nonmeaning: Consciousness and the Cognitive Nonconscious. November 11, 2010, New Practices of Reading. N. Katherine Hayles is the Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University. "[15] Hayles differentiates "embodiment" from the concept of "the body" because "in contrast to the body, embodiment is contextual, enmeshed within the specifics of place, time, physiology, and culture, which together compose enactment. 6 x 9 They are all part of cognitive assemblages that develop through biological evolution by natural selection as well as technogenesis. Kristevas psychoanalytic approach and practice shed light on the unconscious, affective, and bodily formation(s) of religious and political discourses and systems. 2011, Co-Editor : Electronic Mediations Series, University of Minnesota Press. Hayles employs the concept of technogenesis to explain the synergistic analytical and aesthetic possibilities between these forms of reading for texts to come. The Moravec test, if I may call it that, is the logical successor to the Turing test. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. External Faculty Fellowship. However, rather than being disturbed by the fact that most cognition necessarily involves no conscious awareness at all, Hayles appreciates that an accurate view of human cognitive ecology opens it to comparison with other biological cognizers on the one hand and on the other to the cognitive capabilities of technical systems (2017, 11). Rate this book. 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. N. Katherine Hayles 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. Campus Safety / Website Support, Courses for the American Literature & Culture Major, Visual Culture / Media Studies / Digital Humanities. 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. The major concept in this book is technogenesis, meaning the co-evolution of humans and their technics. Meeting Martin Buber, in other words, means meeting the voice behind the words, a man who did not always know how to recover from institutions.. We have to feel our way toward change. It is a way of explaining how systems come into existence that performs two tasks at once: it describes the generation of systems, and it also constructs the world as it appears from the viewpoint of systems theory . His/her/its best strategy, Turing suggested, may be to answer your questions truthfully. August 2014 - July 2015, Program Review, Critical Theory Program, Mount Holyoke College. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics [Marions] central concepts and phenomenological method offer an ambiguous resource for political theology: on the one hand, he articulates a rigorous method of doing phenomenology which is trained to remain open to phenomena historically ignored and marginalized, and on the other hand, his own conclusions can veer towards a Christian triumphalism which is in danger of betraying the primary aim of his philosophical project. Hayles disregards the idea of a form of immortality created through the preservation of human knowledge with computers, instead opting for a specification within the definition of posthuman that one embraces the possibilities of information technology without the imagined concepts of infinite power and immortality, tropes often associated with technology and dissociated with traditional humanity. Interest Areas 33 halftones N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. For information on purchasing the bookfrom bookstores or here onlineplease go to the webpage for How We Became Posthuman. This gives reason for taking diverse modes of agency and subjectivity seriously. 2014. 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 How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics 1st Edition by N. Katherine Hayles (Author) 74 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $16.49 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $54.00 Other used and collectible from $19.45 Paperback $17.21 - $22.50 Other new, used and collectible from $6.10 She is well known for her research and understanding of the terms "human" and "posthuman" as concepts emerging from our historical . 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. She is currently embarking on a Tri-Agency-funded study of existential, social, and political concerns involved in a medical AI diagnostic tool called the digital cancer twin, including how we think ourselves through time with predictive AI. 2017. Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science. January 5, 2013, Re-Thinking the Humanities Curriculum. Tel 310 825 4173 A pseudo-autobiographical exploration of the artistic and cultural impact of the transformation of the print book to its electronic incarnations. But symbiosis always entails mutual risk exposure. Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists! Alan M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," Mind 54 (1950): 433-57. In his thoughtful and perceptive intellectual biography of Turing, Andrew Hodges suggests that Turing's predilection was always to deal with the world as if it were a formal puzzle.2 To a remarkable extent, Hodges says, Turing was blind to the distinction between saying and doing. January 5, 2013, Instability in Global Finance Capital. This is because transhumanism secularizes traditional religious themes, concerns, and goals, while endowing technology with religious significance (2012, 710). N. Katherine hayles ethics, or bad philosophy" (140). John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She diagrams these shifts to show how ideas about abstraction and information actually have a "local habitation" and are "embodied" within the narratives. In academic discourse about the shift to the posthuman, it is likely to be influential for some time to come. Although ideas about "information" taken out of context creates abstractions about the human "body", reading science fiction situates these same ideas in "embodied" narrative.". 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. Notes. Instead, these children communicate through an affective economy of micro facial gestures. Chicago Manual of Style 41860 [11035]Hayles,Katherine [1388]Invited Lectures Apophenia: Patterns (?) The book examines close reading, hyper reading (skimming hyperlinked texts on screens), and machine reading (applying computer algorithms to a volume of text too vast to be read by a single person [Hayles 2012, 72]). Hayles replaces the concept of withdrawal with that of resistance. With this move, the sidesteps the hermeneutic solipsism for which OOO circles have been critiqued, and stands with the relationality of politically engaged feminist speculative realisms. How We Think represents Hayles interest in the material production and reception of texts, and at the field level, in the digital humanities. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. N. Katherine Hayles Professor, Department of English UCLA Presentation Embodiment and Cognition: Implications for Gender. N. Katherine Hayles. 2008. David Kline introduces the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann for political theology and reflects on how it might think about its own limits of observation. Judith Butlers work has altered the trajectories of multiple disciplines in the last thirty years; what can they teach scholars of political theology? November 15, 2008, Spatializing Time: The Influence of Google Earth, Google Maps. Lyotards thought as it appears in Le Diffrend describes a linguistic state that evades speech, and the ways in which justice could be done to it, or not. The Turing test was to set the agenda for artificial intelligence for the next three decades. [26], In terms of the strength of Hayles' arguments regarding the return of materiality to information, several scholars expressed doubt on the validity of the provided grounds, notably evolutionary psychology. How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. "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. In other words, a proper posthuman analytics makes visible a profoundly ecological ontology where every real object possesses its own experience of the world (2014, 178). Want to Read. The whole point of this game was that a successful imitation of a woman's responses by a man would not prove anything. Powered by VIVO, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature, Digital Humanities; Electronic Literature; Literature, Science, and Technology; Science Fiction; Critical Theory. [17][18] Hayles makes a distinction between thinking and cognition. This construction necessarily makes the subject into a cyborg, for the enacted and represented bodies are brought into conjunction through the technology that connects them. ': Families, Snitches, and Recuperation in Pynchon's Vineland, Turbulence in Literature and Science: Questions of Influence, Space for Writing: Stanislaw Lem and the Dialectic 'That Guides My Pen, 'A Metaphor of God Knew How Many Parts': The Engine that Drives "The Crying of Lot 49", Self-Reflexive Metaphors in Maxwell's Demon and Shannon's Choice: Finding the Passages, Information or Noise? Deepening our understanding of the extraordinary transformative powers digital technologies have placed in the hands of humanists. 296 pages "[19], "Cognition is a much broader capacity that extends far beyond consciousness into other neurological brain processes; it is also pervasive in other life forms and complex technical systems. May 21, 2011, Artificial Nature: Rethinking the Natural. November 12, 2011, Narrative Storyworlds and Experimental Fiction. Motens prophecy bespeaks aesthetic registers in ordinary (Black) life, but he denies that the aesthetic is redemptive. 40 ratings3 reviews. "Too often the pressing implications of tomorrow's technologically enhanced human beings have been buried beneath an impenetrable haze of theory-babble and leather-clad posturing. Her scholarship primarily focuses on the "relations between science, literature, and technology. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesisthe belief that humans and technics are coevolvingand advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa. Speculative Aesthetics and Object-Oriented Inquiry (OOI). Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism V: 158-179. December 15, 2009, Distributed Cognition: Implications for the Humanities". You are alone in the room, except for two computer terminals flickering in the dim light. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. You use the terminals to communicate with two entities in another room, whom you cannot see. 1999, 338 pages, 5 line drawings Rafael Vizcano offers a biographical introduction to the philosophical work of Enrique Dussel, a major figure of the decolonial turn. of Chicago Press 2015), in addition to over 100 peer-reviewed articles. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. January 5, 2013, Comparative Media as a Theoretical Framework. Ren Wellek Prize. You'll get a detailed solution from a subject matter expert that helps you learn core concepts. Narrative: Raw Shark Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. An excerpt from If your failure to distinguish correctly between human and machine proves that machines can think, what does it prove if you fail to distinguish woman from man? A New Paradigm for the Humanities: Comparative Textual Media (co-authored with Jessica Pressman), forthcoming University of Minnesota Press, 2013. saving. Hayles experiments with a political response in her subsequent monograph, the 2017 Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious. Her affirmative posthumanism can help expose the latent theologies of any number of anthropocentric theories, but especially traditional liberal humanism and forms of capitalism. | Wilderson doesnt use the term zombies in his work. To pose the question of "what can think" inevitably also changes, in a reverse feedback loop, the terms of "who can think.". 4.05 avg rating 806 ratings published 1999 7 editions. January 5, 2013, Machine and Close Reading: Convergent Strategies. She is the author of The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century (1984) and Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. Psychopolitics is Hans main contribution to political theory. [8] Within this framework "human" is aligned with Enlightenment notions of liberal humanism, including its emphasis on the "natural self" and the freedom of the individual. It is as productive to think with as it is to think against Claude Lefort, a revolutionary-turned-philosopher who analyzed power and the political regimes to which it gives rise. Can computers create meanings? 2017. Moreover, most of . 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. Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science.
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