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Sampson, unthought meets the assemblage brain, capacious. She teaches and writes on literature and science in the twentieth century, and is currently completing a book entitled virtual bodies. Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics by n. The concept addresses questions of ethics and justice, language and transspecies communication, social systems, and the intellectual aspirations of interdisciplinarity. In her essay hayles discusses how discourses about the posthuman perpetuate a precarious devaluation of the importance of material, embodied existence. Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics katherine hayles chicago, il.
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