N. Katherine Hayles's How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis PDF

By N. Katherine Hayles

“How do we think?” N. Katherine Hayles poses this question initially of this bracing exploration of the concept that we predict via, with, and along media. because the age of print passes and new applied sciences seem each day, this proposition has turn into way more advanced, relatively for the commonly print-based disciplines within the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift starting to be among electronic scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for modern technogenesis—the trust that people and technics are coevolving—and advocates for what she calls comparative media stories, a brand new method of finding electronic paintings inside print traditions and vice versa.

Hayles examines the evolution of the sphere from the conventional humanities and the way the electronic humanities are altering educational scholarship, study, educating, and book. She is going directly to depict the neurological results of operating in electronic media, the place skimming and scanning, or “hyper reading,” and research via computing device algorithms are kinds of studying as legitimate as shut studying as soon as was once. Hayles contends that we needs to realize all 3 different types of studying and comprehend the restrictions and probabilities of each one. as well as illustrating what a comparative media point of view involves, Hayles explores the technogenesis spiral in its complete complexity. She considers the consequences of early databases comparable to telegraph code books and confronts our altering perceptions of time and house within the electronic age, illustrating this via 3 leading edge electronic productions—Steve Tomasula’s digital novel, TOC; Steven Hall’s The uncooked Shark Texts; and Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions.

 

Deepening our figuring out of the extreme transformative powers electronic applied sciences have put within the fingers of humanists, How We Think provides a cogent motive for tackling the demanding situations dealing with the arts today.

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