Difference between revisions of "The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman"
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'''Hayles, Katherine. "The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman." 1993.''' Anthologized in Jenny Wolmark, ed. ''[[Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace]]''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999. Reviewed Veronica Hollinger, "[[Doing It for Ourselves: Two Feminist Cyber-Readers]], our source here, q.v.[https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/holl85.htm] | '''Hayles, Katherine. "The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman." 1993.''' Anthologized in Jenny Wolmark, ed. ''[[Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace]]''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999. Reviewed Veronica Hollinger, "[[Doing It for Ourselves: Two Feminist Cyber-Readers]], our source here, q.v.[https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/holl85.htm] | ||
− | Described by Hollinger as "an incisive look at the power of narrative to construct versions of techno-subjectivity that function as preliminary statements about our incipient real-world existence as posthumans. Along the way, Hayles develops detailed readings of the gendered cyborgs and tangled webs of production and reproduction in Bernard Wolfe’s anti-utopian masterpiece, ''[[Limbo]]'' (1952), John Varley’s "Press Enter" (1986), and C.J. Cherryh’s ''[[Cyteen]]'' (1988)." | + | Described by Hollinger as "an incisive look at the power of narrative to construct versions of techno-subjectivity that function as preliminary statements about our incipient real-world existence as posthumans. Along the way, Hayles develops detailed readings of the gendered cyborgs and tangled webs of production and reproduction in Bernard Wolfe’s anti-utopian masterpiece, ''[[Limbo]]'' (1952), John Varley’s "[[Press Enter]]" ([1984/]1986), and C.J. Cherryh’s ''[[Cyteen]]'' (1988)." |
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Hayles, Katherine. "The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman." 1993. Anthologized in Jenny Wolmark, ed. Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999. Reviewed Veronica Hollinger, "Doing It for Ourselves: Two Feminist Cyber-Readers, our source here, q.v.[1]
Described by Hollinger as "an incisive look at the power of narrative to construct versions of techno-subjectivity that function as preliminary statements about our incipient real-world existence as posthumans. Along the way, Hayles develops detailed readings of the gendered cyborgs and tangled webs of production and reproduction in Bernard Wolfe’s anti-utopian masterpiece, Limbo (1952), John Varley’s "Press Enter" ([1984/]1986), and C.J. Cherryh’s Cyteen (1988)."