N Katherine Hayles: 5 books

“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. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly...

N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking—how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to function. Marshalling...

N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity....

◎後人類時代、人工生命時代、大數據時代的必讀經典之作！ ◎勾勒虛實夾雜的後人類景象，梳理各種情境編織成的世界！ ◎醍醐灌頂，提點探索後人類的感性層面！ 隨著人工生命技術日益成熟，人類是什麼?誰又是後人類？ 後人類時代來臨，人類與機器的關係將大翻轉？ 人工智慧高度發展，人類與機器之間不再存有明顯的界線？ 這是DNA精密計算的時代，是人工智慧即將當道的時代，所謂實體信息已分散在茫茫的信號間，我們對於人類身體曾持有的概念，一度消失於虛擬空間中。某些人對於這樣的變化驚豔不已，但若將這樣的概念落載於電腦程式或人類的大腦想像中，卻變成了星際迷航的科幻風格，令大多數的人驚恐，沉溺於外星怪物在太空艙中沉思的驚怖畫面。 當我們逐步成為後人類的這段過程中，知名人文學者N....

From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks...