How We Think Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis

Name: How We Think Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
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ISBN: 9780226321424

ISBN-10: 0226321428

ISBN-13: 9780226321424

Edition: 2012

Authors: N. Katherine Hayles

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“Howdowe 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 has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis—the belief that humans and technics are coevolving—and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments



How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis


First Interlude: Practices and Processes in Digital Media



The Digital Humanities: Engaging the Issues



How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine


Second Interlude: The Complexities of Contemporary Technogenesis



Tech-TOC: Complex Temporalities and Contemporary Technogenesis



Technogenesis in Action: Telegraph Code Books and the Place of the Human


Third Interlude: Narrative and Database: Digital Media as Forms



Narrative and Database: Spatial History and the Limits of Symbiosis



Transcendent Data and Transmedia Narrative: Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts



Mapping Time, Charting Data: The Spatial Aesthetic of Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions


Notes


Works Cited


Index