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Tables of Contents for How We Became Posthuman
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Prologue
xi
Toward Embodied Virtuality
1
24
Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers
25
25
Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
50
34
Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety
84
29
From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo
113
18
The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization
131
29
Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick
160
32
The Materiality of Informatics
192
30
Narratives of Artificial Life
222
25
The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman
247
36
Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman?
283
10
Notes
293
32
Index
325