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'''Hayles, N. Katherine, ''How We Become Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics'''''. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1999. On line at link as of 4 July 2019.[https://monoskop.org/images/5/50/Hayles_N_Katherine_How_We_Became_Posthuman_Virtual_Bodies_in_Cybernetics_Literature_and_Informatics.pdf]

Mainly a collection of Hayles's essays from the 1990s (see Acknowledgments, pp. ix-x), with a Prologue, Conclusion, and apparatus. An influential collection by an important scholar.
 1. [[Toward Embodied Virtuality]] /  1 
 2. [[Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers]] / 25 
 3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics / 50 
 4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety / 84 
 5. [[From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limho]] / 113 
 6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization / 131 
 7. [[Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick]] / 160 
 8. The Materiality of Informatics / 192 
 9. Narratives of Artificial Life / 222 
 10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman /  247 
 11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman? / 283 


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