Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:19:06 -0600
From: Dean Blobaum <[log in to unmask]>

The University of Chicago Press announces online excerpts from two new
books on how the information age is transforming our culture and our
selves.  Plus an interview/dialogue with the authors.

(1) Read the introduction to the new book by philosopher Albert Borgmann,
_Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the
Millennium_.  Borgmann develops a brilliant theory and history of
information, from signs in the natural world to their digitization.
URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/066258.html

(2) N. Katherine Hayles has just published _How We Became Posthuman:
Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics.  Hayles
investigates the fate of bodies in the information age, ranging from the
history of cybernetics to artificial life, and from Philip K. Dick to Greg
Bear and Neal Stephenson. We have the prologue to her book online.
URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/321460.html

(3) Hayles and Borgmann talk about humans and machines, cyberculture and
cyberspace in an interview/dialogue.
URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/borghayl.html

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Dean Blobaum
The University of Chicago Press
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