“If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.” ScienceTheoryPosthumanism Book:How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics Source: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
“Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.” YearsHas BeensViewsStudyFiveMediaTheoryHundredShotsCriticismImportanceWake UpMediumsAnalysisAssumptionPrintLiterary Criticism Author:N. Katherine Hayles
