Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 314.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:57:34 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Katherine Hayles and the relations between literature &
science
dear humanist scholars,
Hello --I thought, this might interest you -- N. Katherine Hayles. "Print
Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media"
N. Katherine Hayles writes and teaches on the relations between literature
and science in the twentieth century (soon to include the twenty-first
century). She is currently at work on two books about electronic
literature. The first, entitled Linking Bodies: Hypertext Fiction in Print
and New Media, explores hypertext as a literary form and discusses its
implications for the media-specific practices of print and computer
technology. The second, Coding the Signifier, argues that current models
of signification have embedded into their theoretical frameworks
presuppositions that are actually about signifiers as they appear on the
printed page rather than signifiers in general. Based on several case
studies, this book offers new ways for thinking about signification in
electronic environments.
Her other books include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in
Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999), Chaos and Order: Complex
Dynamics in Literature and Science (1991), and Chaos Bound: Orderly
Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (1990). Hayles has won
numerous awards for her work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a
Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy. She has been
awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Rochester,
the Medal of Honor from the University of Helsinki, the Distinguished
Scholar Award from the Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and has
won two Distinguished Teaching Awards at the University of California at
Los Angeles, where she is a Professor of English.
Thanks, I hope researchers in the field of literary criticism would be
going to take benefits from my posting.
Best Regards,
Arun Tripathi aka Posthuman :)
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