#technocriticism

[half-assed-genius]

They're not humanoid. They're not dramatic. They're quiet. Invisible. Running your feed. Approving your loan. Writing your résumé.

The most dangerous robots don’t have arms. They have data access and no conscience.

Image created with a robot.

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Quote from "Cyberspace and the Lonely Crowd" by Greg Van Alstyne.

"Man shouldn't be able to see his own reflection - there's nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart."

-Fernando Pessoa

[eofotmc]

Technology does not fulfill man’s perennial dreams, but craftily mimics them.

Nicolas Gomez Davila, Escolios a un Texto Implícito

[igreyphd]

Katherine Hayles

Writing Machines: Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics: René Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999

Unthought: The Power Of The Cognitive Nonconscious (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0226447889)

How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. ISBN 9780226321424)

Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. ISBN 9780268030858)

My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 9780226321479)

Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience (ed.), 2004

Writing Machines, (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002. ISBN 9780262582155)

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN 9780226321462)

Technocriticism and Hypernarrative. A special issue of Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 3, Fall 1997 (guest editor)

Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. (ed.), (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN 9780226321448)

Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. ISBN 9780801497018)

The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. ISBN 9780801492907)

‘The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event,’ in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, Morris, Adalaide, and Thomas Swiss, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

‘The life cycle of cyborgs: writing the posthuman.’ In The Cyborg Handbook, Gray, Chris Hables (ed.) New York: Routledge, 1996. Also available in Cybersexualities, Wolmark, Jenny (ed.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2000.

Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments in Configurations, Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2002, pp. 297–320

Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers

Narrating Bits: Encounters between Humans and Intelligent Machines, Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, Volume 1 Issue 1 (Evidence).

[mappingfestival-blog]

Mapping _ Digital Shifts 2017

Conférence Technocriticism and Speculative Engineering par les artistes Félicien Goguey, Nicolas Maigret, Clément Renaud et Gordan Savičić dans le cadre de l'exposition DISNOVATION.ORG à ACT /// 12 mai, ACT (Le Commun)

Photos © Gabriel Asper

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Via tannerwave

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"Cyberspace and the Lonely Crowd" by Greg Van Alstyne

[eofotmc]

Modern man has the ambition of replacing with objects he buys what other ages hoped to obtain from the methodical cultivation of the sentiments.

Nicolas Gomez Davila, Escolios a un Texto Implícito