N. Katherine Hayles

Dec 1, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | N. Katherine Hayles

. Jan. 2025. 304p. ISBN 9780226837475. pap. $27.50. TECH COPY ISBN Hayles (English, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Postprint) begins her book with the scientific jargon of her field. That may make this title a challenging read for some readers, but it could also be part of the author’s point. She suggests a need to disrupt what she calls an “integrated cognitive framework” that has guided deep intellectual work since the Renaissance.

Jul 27, 2024 | frankfuredi.substack.com | N. Katherine Hayles |Frank Furedi

The contemporary era is obsessed with the distractions faced by people from the digital media. Claims are frequently made that our power of attention is neurologically compromised by exposure to digital technology and the Internet.[i] This focus on technologically driven inattention is understandable but misplaced. The history of inattention indicates that what fuels disquiet about its alleged perils are apprehensions about the consequences of failing to attend to moral authority.

Dec 4, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Timothy Baker |J.G. Ballard |N. Katherine Hayles |Abby Smith Rumsey

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. All childhood is an imagined world. It’s rare to find a memoir of childhood reading that does not begin with, or at least include, a love of maps; the places of fiction define and extend our own.

Nov 18, 2023 | portside.org | N. Katherine Hayles

Stanisław Lem’s Prescient Vision of Artificial Life Published November 18, 2023 In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanisław Lem’s “The Invincible” tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased.

Nov 2, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | N. Katherine Hayles |Daniel C. Dennett |Kay Redfield Jamison |J.G. Ballard

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanisław Lem’s “The Invincible” tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased.