Books by N. Katherine Hayles - Goodreads Tel 310 825 4173 External Faculty Fellowship. Ropes Lecture. Anidjars major contribution to modern political theology lies in responding to this lacuna. "[22] Some scholars found her prose difficult to read or over-complicated. General Criticism and Critical Theory. Writing Machines - MIT Press How We Became Posthuman. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Ithaca. University of California 2022 UC Regents, English Reading Room To pose the question of "what can think" inevitably also changes, in a reverse feedback loop, the terms of "who can think.". 423-24). Meillassouxs thinking of post-Copernican cosmic immanence and cosmic delegitimation constitutes a challenge to political theology as still predominantly Ptolemaic in its assumptions and focus. Hayles emphasizes the range of technological and biological decision making that actively constitutes much of our reality while being beyond conscious control - this is the purport of her title. December 15, 2009, Digital Humanities 2.0,. January 7, 2011, How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine. Reading N. Katherine Hayles's latest work reminded me of the advice implicit in an ancient Chinese curse. Vega focuses on three Robinsonian concepts that are useful for political theology: racial capitalism, Black radical tradition, and African metaphysics. April 17, 2011, Raw Shark Texts: Database versus Narrative. 1999. Twitter The Invisible Committee may be productively, albeit counterintuitively, understood as Gnostic, a perspective that will put into question some of the assumptions behind the way the political and the theological are demarcated from and related to each other in contemporary debates. 2. Achille Mbembes work excavates the legacies of colonial reason and violence shaping the powers of death in the world today. Writing Machines - N. Katherine Hayles - Google Books Sharday Mosurinjohn is Assistant Professor in the School of Religion at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. 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. Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21 st centuries. Expanding our notions of what and who counts as political actors, allowing us to resist theologies of dominion and stewardship, or, in fact, any metaphysics that depends on the uniqueness of the human and the conscious integrity of human intentionality. His/her/its best strategy, Turing suggested, may be to answer your questions truthfully. Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious, Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, 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, APPROXIMATING ALGORITHMS: FROM DISCRIMINATING DATA TO TALKING WITH AN AI, Creativity and Nonconscious Cognition: A Conversation with Mary Zournazi and N. Katherine Hayles, Microbiomimesis: Bacteria, our cognitive collaborators, Textual and real-life spaces: expanding theoretical frameworks.