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Literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999.
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'''N. Katherine Hayles''' is a literary critic and theorist. She is the author of ''How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics'' which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999.
  
 
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N. Katherine Hayles is one of the foremost scholars of the relationship between literature and science in the late twentieth century. Her early work orchestrates the play of resonances between contemporary scientific paradigms and literature.
 
N. Katherine Hayles is one of the foremost scholars of the relationship between literature and science in the late twentieth century. Her early work orchestrates the play of resonances between contemporary scientific paradigms and literature.
  
She is the author of Chaos Bound, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, and Writing Machines. Her most recent book is My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.
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Hayles' essays and books focus upon American postmodern literature, (particularly, though not limited to, the works of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Robert Coover) as well as the area of Literature and Science. She also writes on electronic textuality, Posthumanism, Technocriticism, Electronic literature, Hypertext, and Hypertext fiction. She is particularly concerned with the parallels between scientific models and literary theories as well as in contextualizing the interactions between humans and intelligent machines.
  
Hayles' essays and books focus upon American postmodern literature, (particularly, though not limited to, the works of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Robert Coover) as well as the area of Literature and Science. She also writes on electronic textuality, Posthumanism, Technocriticism, Electronic literature, Hypertext, and Hypertext fiction. She is particularly concerned with the parallels between scientific models and literary theories as well as in contextualizing the interactions between humans and intelligent machines.
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==Works==
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* ''[[Media:Hayles_N_Katherine_The_Cosmic_Web_Scientific_Field_Models_and_Literary_Strategies_in_the_Twentieth_Century_1984.pdf|The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century]]'', Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984, [http://nkhayles.com/cosmic_web.html PDF], [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58025 HTML, PDFs].
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=11808 Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science]'', Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=2718 How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics]'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, 350 pp.
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=530 Writing Machines]'', Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002, 144 pp.
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=1034 My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts]'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 290 pp.
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** ''Parole, écriture, code'', eds. Arnaud Regnauld and Emanuele Quinz, pref. Arnaud Regnauld, postf. Charles Ramond, trans. Stéphane Vanderhaeghe, Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015. Trans. of "Speech, Writing, Code – Three World Views" section. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=3854&menu=1] {{fr}}
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3572 Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary]'', Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, 223 pp.
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/f81fe6cf-3064-457b-97cf-b643e0b8331c How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis]'', University of Chicago Press, 2012. [http://www.howwethink.info Book website].
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/247b4ea7-9a8a-432d-96d0-06ff541f18fe Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious]'', University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/9a59555c-0358-4eb1-a4c6-abfa1ad0e962 Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational]'', Columbia University Press, 2021.
  
; Selected bibliography
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* ''My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts'', 2005
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* ''[[Media:Hayles_N_Katherine_ed_Chaos_and_Order_Complex_Dynamics_in_Literature_and_Science_1991.pdf|Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science]]'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
* ''Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience'' (ed.), 2004
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=514 Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience]'', Intellect, 2004, 255 pp.
* ''Writing Machines'', 2002
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* with Jessica Pressman, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/db71e049-3505-4ff1-8a3d-ff1a85547004 Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era]'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/09528e07-4576-4866-84e9-2a9ccedd3ffd EPUB].
* ''How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics'', 1999
 
* ''Chaos and Order'' (ed.), 1991
 
* ''Chaos Bound'', 1990
 
* ''The Cosmic Web'', 1984
 
  
 
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* Josephine Bosma, "[http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9811/msg00064.html Interview with N. Katherine Hayles]", Nettime, November 1998.  
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* [http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Hayles-UnfinishedWork.pdf "Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere"], ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 23:7-8 (2006), pp 159-166.
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* [http://nkhayles.com/articles.html See author's website]
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==Interviews==
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* Josephine Bosma, [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9811/msg00064.html "Interview with N. Katherine Hayles"], ''Nettime'', November 1998.
  
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==Links==
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Katherine_Hayles
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* [http://nkhayles.com Home page]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Katherine_Hayles Hayles at Wikipedia]
  
[[Category:Media culture writers|Hayles, Katherine]]
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[[Category:Writers|Hayles, Katherine]]
 
[[Category:Posthumanities|Hayles, N Katherine]]
 
[[Category:Posthumanities|Hayles, N Katherine]]

Latest revision as of 07:57, 24 July 2021

N. Katherine Hayles is a literary critic and theorist. She is the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999.

Background

Hayles received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1966, her M.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1969, her M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University in 1970, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1977. She has taught at the University of Iowa, University of Missouri–Rolla, the California Institute of Technology, and Dartmouth College.

She is currently the Hillis Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she has taught since 1992.

Research

N. Katherine Hayles is one of the foremost scholars of the relationship between literature and science in the late twentieth century. Her early work orchestrates the play of resonances between contemporary scientific paradigms and literature.

Hayles' essays and books focus upon American postmodern literature, (particularly, though not limited to, the works of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Robert Coover) as well as the area of Literature and Science. She also writes on electronic textuality, Posthumanism, Technocriticism, Electronic literature, Hypertext, and Hypertext fiction. She is particularly concerned with the parallels between scientific models and literary theories as well as in contextualizing the interactions between humans and intelligent machines.

Works[edit]

Books
Editor
Articles

Interviews[edit]

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