| Description |
1 online resource (x, 290 pages) |
| Contents |
Prologue: computing kin -- Part I. Making: language and code. Intermediation: textuality and the regime of computation ; Speech, writing, code: three worldviews ; The dream of information: escape and constraint in the bodies of three fictions -- Part II. Storing: print and etext. Translating media ; Performative code and figurative language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ; Flickering connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork girl -- Part III. Transmitting: analog and digital. (Un)masking the agent: Stanislaw Lem's "The mask" ; Simulating narratives: what virtual creatures can teach us ; Subjective cosmology and the regime of computation: intermediation in Greg Egan's fiction -- Epilogue: recursion and emergence |
| Summary |
We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles's latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices. My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-278) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Computational intelligence.
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Human-computer interaction.
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Computers in literature.
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Virtual reality.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Virtual Reality
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Attitude to Computers
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virtual reality.
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COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
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COMPUTERS -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.
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American literature
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Computational intelligence
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Computers in literature
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Human-computer interaction
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Virtual reality
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Künstliche Intelligenz
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Computer Motiv
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Literatur
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Bellettrie.
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Automatisering.
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Hypertekst.
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Virtuele werkelijkheid.
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Inteligência artificial.
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Realidade virtual.
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005006276 |
| ISBN |
9780226321493 |
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0226321495 |
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9780226321479 |
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0226321479 |
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9780226321486 |
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0226321487 |
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