N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine HaylesEmbodiment is contextual, enwebbed within the specifics of place, time, physiology and culture that together comprise enactment. Embodiment never coincides exactly with the 'body.
Hyperattention is switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.
Information is delivered as a material infrastructure rather than as an abstract pattern.
Information is always operating and circulating in conjunction with bodies. Thus, the careful study of the imbrications of bodies and machines serves to underscore our fundamentally prosthetic mode of being.
Posthumanism is the movement whereby that which has been used to generate a system is made, through a changed perspective, to become part of the system it generates.
