Biofunk - The Work of Kathleen Hayles | Scribd

Biofunk - The Work of Kathleen Hayles | Scribd: "She shows how the tradition of liberal humanism -- which creates subjectivity
based on the idea that you own your own body -- has gradually given way to a
model based on the human's role as information processor. She dubs this
emerging paradigm the 'computational universe.'
In the computational universe, the machine becomes the primary metaphor for
understanding the human. Hayles writes, 'The great cosmos itself is seen as a vast
computer and ... we are the programs it runs.' She points out that this hypothesis,
though often speculative and highly contested, even within scientific discourses,
has gathered enough cultural momentum to become a common vision of our
shared future."