N. Katherine Hayles

Comment pensons-nous - maintenant que le numérique nous traverse de part en part ? Comment nos pratiques de lecture sont-elles amenées à évoluer ? Comment notre attention est-elle appelée à se reconfigurer ? Telles sont les questions que ce livre... Lire la suite

A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands... Lire la suite

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer... Lire la suite

Fascinée par ce qu'elle considère comme des similarités troublantes entre les théories littéraires et les modèles scientifiques contemporains, et forte d'une double compétence dans ces deux domaines, N. Katherine Hayles étudie les convergences entre... Lire la suite

In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that... Lire la suite

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... Lire la suite

Pensare senza pensare: è intorno a quest’idea che N. Katherine Hayles, che da anni insegna e scrive intorno alle relazioni tra letteratura, scienza e tecnologia, costruisce questo saggio. Si indaga, tra le pagine, su come usiamo processi cognitivi... Lire la suite

"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... Lire la suite

Since Gutenberg’s time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N.... Lire la suite

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.... Lire la suite

Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesâ•physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theoryâ•signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift.... Lire la suite