How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

By C. Land. 2001

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The freelance translation machine: Algorithmic culture and the invisible industry (2013, background): “A central figure calls for assistance: ‘“Take a letter, Miss Freed”, he says’ (Hayles, 1999: 82).”
From Cyber to Hybrid (2006, background): “Authors such as Hayles (1999) and Robins (2000) have criticized this position by emphasizing the connections between cyberspace and our physical world.”
Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality (2013, background): “The limits of computing power, the need to dissipate heat from processors, and so forth—there are myriad of restraints at the material level of technologies, which are bound to result in a style of styling styles (Hayles 1999).”
Affect, Relationality and the `Problem of Personality' (2008, background): “Katherine Hayles (1999) has critiqued the disembodied nature of the concept of information that has characterized much cybernetic discourse.”
Embodied Cognition: A ﬁeld guide (background): “Research in EC promises one important component of that eventual understanding.”
Recommended for you: The Netflix Prize and the production of algorithmic culture (2016, background): “…difficulty lies in the extent of Hayles’ claims, which oscillate between the care-fully situated—“‘human’ and ‘posthuman’ coexist in shifting configurations that vary with historically specific contexts” (Hayles, 1999: 6)—and the transhistorical—“we have always been posthuman” (Hayles, 1999: 291).”
Bots, bespoke, code and the materiality of software platforms (2014, background): “…– but he cites Hayles in arguing that this trope in which digital information is proclaimed to be ‘free from the material constraints that govern the material world’ (Hayles, 1999, p. 13) is not just a casual metaphor of technologists but a fundamental assumption in contemporary post-human society.”
Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media (2010, background): “This is despite the explosion of scholarly and popular work that heralded the coming of a new posthuman subject residing in a “digital age” or “network society” (Castells 1996, Hayles 1999, Negroponte 1996, Turkle 1995).”
Securing with algorithms: Knowledge, decision, sovereignty (2017, background): “‘What embodiment secures’, writes Katherine Hayles, is ‘not the distinction between male and female or between humans who can think and machines which cannot’, but rather that embodiment ‘makes clear that thought is a much broader cognitive function’ (Hayles, 1999: xiv).”
Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City (2005, background): “…Dumit et al. (1995), Franklin (1995), Gabilondo (1995), Gray et al. (1995), Tomas (1995), Balsamo (1996), Lock (1996), Bostic (1998), Hacking (1998), Mitchell (1998), Picon (1998), Schaub (1998), Formenti (1999), Hayles (1999a), Fox (2000), Allison (2001), Tofts et al. (2002) and Zylinska (2002).”
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “…on the interactions or reciprocal feedbacks between entities (Bodin et al. 2011; Schulz and Martin-Ortega 2018), while in return many relational approaches have drawn inspiration from complex systems principles of inde-terminacy, uncertainty and contingency (Hayles 1999; Scoones 1999; Braun 2015).”
Consumers and Artificial Intelligence: An Experiential Perspective (2020, neutral): “…Maria in Metropolis to Apple’s Siri, patriarchal norms and preferences embedded in seemingly benign AI experiences have the potential to engage only certain types of users, such as white men, while alienating others, such as women and racial minorities (Adam 1998; Hayles 1999; Haraway 1985).”
The social power of algorithms (2017, background): “Such a concern could well take us back beyond these interests in the algorithm, to the type of work done on cybernetics, interfaced bodies and posthumanism by Haraway (1991), Hayles (1999) and Mitchell (2003).”
Why I Want to be a Posthuman when I Grow Up (2013, neutral): “(Hayles 1999).”