...Jap-Nanak Makkar This review essay compares two early and two recent texts by N. Katherine Hayles and Mark B. N. Hansen. Considering their recent work in the context of Ruth Leys’s critique of the turn to affect, I argue that Hayles and Hansen use neuroscientific conclusions on a “missing half...

... Queen: A Life of Caresse Crosby. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Hartigan, John, Jr. Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago...

... between the two through the hybrid. In the end, however, the text seems to propose that the sub- ject itself can dissolve the boundary between subject and object through a process of inclusion. Critics have exposed the limitations of this figuration of the cyborg as posthuman. N. Katherine Hayles...

... Bewes), “distant reading” (Franco Moretti), or “digital reading” (N. Katherine Hayles).22 All of these might be regarded as post-­postmodern attempts, however flawed or preliminary, to move beyond practices of what I am calling, for the sake of simplicity, close reading.23 In a 19. Fredric...

... . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Hayles N. Katherine . 1999 . How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Information . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Hayles N. Katherine . 2005 . My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary...

..., the two nodes must speak the same language.”25 Though Infi- nite Jest is paginated sequentially, proceeds in a mostly linear manner, and contains over one hundred pages of “Notes and Errata,” any foray into the novel must agree with N. Katherine Hayles’s assessment of it: “For such a novel any...

... York: Modern Language Association, 2012. boundary 2 39:3 (2012) DOI 10.1215/01903659-1730680 © 2012 by Duke University Press 222 boundary 2 / Fall 2012 Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogene- sis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Hickman, Ben...

... . Hayles N. Katherine . 1999 . How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . ———. 2005 . My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Hirschman...

... for the sake of convenience. For a recent study that discusses in more detail the cybernetic connection to the ‘‘post/human see N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago and London...