圖書標籤: 後人類主義 posthuman 文化研究 社會學 後人類 哲學 Sociology Philosophy
发表于2024-12-23
How We Became Posthuman pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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 or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.
Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman."
Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems.
Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of wherewe might go from here.
Hayles (English, UCLA) investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. Ranging widely across the history of technology and culture, she relates three interwoven stories: how information came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from material forms; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist subject in cybernetic discourse. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, she provides an account of how we arrived in our virtual age. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
放棄托福、雅思、GRE吧,以後流行圖靈測試。
評分中英文對照又把關鍵章節看瞭一遍。目前阻礙文科生談後人類、人工智能話題的是:他是文科生。
評分A marathon read, but every minute is worth it.
評分花瞭快3個月纔讀完。前麵讀著後麵忘著,大概全書讀懂50~60%。 看來以後要做筆記,要不然不懂再加記憶力差,讀瞭完全和沒讀沒什麼差彆。人類完全沒必要hold on原來以及現在人給自己定義的一切,包括humanism,這一切也都是在固定的曆史階段由各種環境參與者閤力而成。
評分竟然沒標記過這本書,慚愧瞭。Hayles概念中的後人類階段,不是單純的帶上義肢、電子眼,也不是淩駕在人類種族之上、伴隨末日而來的新物種,而是人和信息、智能機器的動態共存。常讀常新,有空再讀一遍。
终于读完了这本在科技史和科幻评论之间多次横跳的书。喜欢三四六章,谈控制论的发展史,输入的密度高一些。关于小说的五、七两章就读到几次犯困;第九章好一些,但也是它选择的作品自身足够紧凑有张力,分析则没有太多新鲜的意思。 作者在首尾都提到本书是要讲三个故事,信息的...
評分终于读完了这本在科技史和科幻评论之间多次横跳的书。喜欢三四六章,谈控制论的发展史,输入的密度高一些。关于小说的五、七两章就读到几次犯困;第九章好一些,但也是它选择的作品自身足够紧凑有张力,分析则没有太多新鲜的意思。 作者在首尾都提到本书是要讲三个故事,信息的...
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評分这本书不是科幻小说,讲的是一种文艺批评理论,这种理论叫后人类主义,核心是提出一种对人的理解——“后人类”。后人类主义认为,人的存在不是像笛卡尔想的那样就是个意识活动,而是一个复杂的纠缠不清的存在,意识和身体纠缠不清,自我和他人纠缠不清,人和人使用的工具(技...
評分终于读完了这本在科技史和科幻评论之间多次横跳的书。喜欢三四六章,谈控制论的发展史,输入的密度高一些。关于小说的五、七两章就读到几次犯困;第九章好一些,但也是它选择的作品自身足够紧凑有张力,分析则没有太多新鲜的意思。 作者在首尾都提到本书是要讲三个故事,信息的...
How We Became Posthuman pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024