Enwebbed Complexities
The Posthumanities, Digital Media and New Feminist Materialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3059880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Birgit Van Puymbroeck (0000-0002-2018-0796), Birgit Van Puymbroeck Birgit Van Puymbroeck, N Katherine Hayles (0000-0001-5922-1033), N Katherine Hayles N Katherine Hayles |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 21 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | DiGeSt Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2593-0273 • E-ISSN: 2593-0281 |
| Publisher | Ghent University (PUBLISHER • BE) |
| DOI | 10.11116/jdivegendstud.2.1-2.0021 |
| OpenAlex | W2803096297 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Writing Machines (2002), My Mother Was a Computer (2005), and How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012).What prompted this interview -which ironically had a technological breakdown -was an interest in intersectionality not only between gender and diversity studies but also between the sciences and the humanities.The interview builds on Rosi Braidotti's article "Yes, There Is No Crisis: Working Towards the Posthumanities" and discusses the impact of digital media on research and teaching in the humanities, as well as the influences of feminism and philosophy on Hayles's work. Birgit Van Puymbroeck:In other interviews as well as in your book Writing Machines, you talk about your trajectory in life.You grew up in a small town in Saint Louis, Missouri, studied chemistry, worked for Xerox and then switched to English.This trajectory clearly underpins your work that bridges the gap between the "two cultures": the sciences and the humanities.To what extent is this distinction between the two cultures anno 2014 still firmly in place or is it becoming increasingly obsolete?Kate Hayles: I think it is still firmly in place.This has to do with the very different missions of the sciences and the humanities.Scientists are concerned to get theories that work, perform experiments to confirm or falsify these theories, and use them to
Aesthetics · Art · Digital media · Epistemology · Materialism · Media studies · Sociology · World Wide Web · Art, Technology, and Culture · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |