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Interview with N. Katherine Hayles and Deena Larsen

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In this interview—part of a series initiated by The NEXT—author Deena Larsen and academic N. Katherine Hayles discuss Hayles' involvement in the formation of the academic field of electronic literature, Hayles' approach to literary critique, and the reduction of anthropocentric bias in conceptions of cognition.

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References

  • Brooks, Cleanth., 1991. From The Well Wrought Urn. Routledge Press. Oxfordshire.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine, Writing Machines. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine, 1999. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Hayles, N. Katherine, 2025. Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Jackson, Shelley, 1995. Patchwork Girl, or A Modern Monster. Watertown, Massachusetts, Eastgate Systems.
  • Larsen, Deena. 1993. Marble Springs. Watertown, Massachusetts, Eastgate Systems.
  • Moulthrop, Stuart and Dene Grigar, 2017. Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press.
  • Shelley, Mary, 1818, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones
  • Von Uexkűll, Jakob, 2010. A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with a Theory of Meaning. Translated by Joseph D. O'Neil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.