Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4300733
AutoresN Katherine Hayles (0000-0001-5922-1033, autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume66
Páginas69
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOctober (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/778755
OpenAlexW2013076679
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas50

In this last decade of the twentieth century, information circulates as the currency of the realm. Genetics, warfare, entertainment, communications, grain production, and financial markets number among the sectors of society revolutionized by the shift to an information paradigm. The shift has also profoundly affected contemporary fiction. If the effects on literature are not widely recognized, perhaps it is because they are at once pervasive and elusive. A book produced by typesetting may look very similar to one generated by a computerized program, but the technological processes involved in this transformation are not neutral. Different technologies of text production suggest different models of signification; changes in signification are linked with shifts in consumption; shifting patterns of consumption initiate new experiences of embodiment; and embodied experience interacts with codes of representation to generate new kinds of textual worlds.1 In fact, each category-production, signification, consumption, bodily experience, and representation-is in constant feedback and feedforward loops with the others. Pull any thread in the skein, and the others prove to be entangled in it

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