David Porush
Biographic Data
| ID | 972192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Porush |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Porush |
| SIGNATURE | PORUSH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hacking the Brainstem: Postmodern Metaphysics and Stephenson's SnowCrash
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1994
Voyage to Eudoxia: The Emergence of a Post-Rational Epistemology in Literature and Science
IN A NEW NOVEL BY THE JAPANESE NOVELIST Haruki Murakami, Hard Boiled Wonderland or The End of the World, the hero discovers that a brilliant but somewhat amoral scientist has implanted a cybernetic device in his brain. The device has three parts: one controls the conscious perceptions of the hero, one the unconscious dream states, and one the stable sense of the self. As the novel progresses, the hero understands that the switches that keep these…
Out of Our Minds
Response to Allison Fraiberg's Essay, 'Of Aids, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions' and Fraiberg's reply to Porush
Response to Allison Fraiberg's Essay, 'Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions' David Porush David Porush responds to Allison Fraiberg’s essay, “Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions,” Postmodern Culturev.1 n. 3(May, 1991): Allison Fraiberg uses the discourses of AIDS to read large oppositions and tendencies at work in our culture. As such, AIDS is one more battlefield between right thinking and wrong thinking. Here wrong thinking is promot…
Prigogine, Chaos, and Contemporary Science Fiction
The new scientific paradigm of deterministic chaos, which explains how complex, apparently chaotic systems leap into new orders of complexity, has an especially intriguing relationship with SF. The chaos model of Ilya Prigogine, called dissipative structures, explains how an open system under certain physical conditions will spontaneously organize itself at a higher level of complexity; it thus resolves apparently fundamental contradictions betwe…
In Response To Jean Baudrillard
The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction
Cybernetic Fiction and Postmodern Science
The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction
Technology and Postmodernism: Cybernetic Fiction
Man is on the threshold of breaking past the discontinuity between himself and machines. In one part this is because man can now perceive his own evolution as inextricably interwoven with his use and development of tools, of which the modern machine is only the furthest extrapolation. In this quote, Bruce Mazlish, an historian of science at M.I.T., identifies what he calls the Fourth Discontinuity, a gap between what is perceived as human and wha…
Cybernetic Fiction and Postmodern Science
Hacking the Brainstem: Postmodern Metaphysics and Stephenson's SnowCrash
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1994
The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction
Technology and Postmodernism: Cybernetic Fiction
Man is on the threshold of breaking past the discontinuity between himself and machines. In one part this is because man can now perceive his own evolution as inextricably interwoven with his use and development of tools, of which the modern machine is only the furthest extrapolation. In this quote, Bruce Mazlish, an historian of science at M.I.T., identifies what he calls the Fourth Discontinuity, a gap between what is perceived as human and wha…
The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction
Cybernetic Fiction and Postmodern Science
The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction
Response to Allison Fraiberg's Essay, 'Of Aids, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions' and Fraiberg's reply to Porush
Response to Allison Fraiberg's Essay, 'Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions' David Porush David Porush responds to Allison Fraiberg’s essay, “Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions,” Postmodern Culturev.1 n. 3(May, 1991): Allison Fraiberg uses the discourses of AIDS to read large oppositions and tendencies at work in our culture. As such, AIDS is one more battlefield between right thinking and wrong thinking. Here wrong thinking is promot…
Prigogine, Chaos, and Contemporary Science Fiction
The new scientific paradigm of deterministic chaos, which explains how complex, apparently chaotic systems leap into new orders of complexity, has an especially intriguing relationship with SF. The chaos model of Ilya Prigogine, called dissipative structures, explains how an open system under certain physical conditions will spontaneously organize itself at a higher level of complexity; it thus resolves apparently fundamental contradictions betwe…
In Response To Jean Baudrillard
Out of Our Minds
Voyage to Eudoxia: The Emergence of a Post-Rational Epistemology in Literature and Science
IN A NEW NOVEL BY THE JAPANESE NOVELIST Haruki Murakami, Hard Boiled Wonderland or The End of the World, the hero discovers that a brilliant but somewhat amoral scientist has implanted a cybernetic device in his brain. The device has three parts: one controls the conscious perceptions of the hero, one the unconscious dream states, and one the stable sense of the self. As the novel progresses, the hero understands that the switches that keep these…
Hacking the Brainstem: Postmodern Metaphysics and Stephenson's SnowCrash
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1994
Art (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Cybernetics (4 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)