My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts

by N. Katherine Hayles

Book Overview

We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles's latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226321479
• ISBN13: 9780226321479
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"