Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share
First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned. — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
“If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis).… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
