UWP Lecturers N. Katherine Hayles lecture, Wednesday, 3 PM

[Rob Latham]

Just a reminder of the next science fiction talk, by N. Katherine  
Hayles, this Wednesday at 3 PM in the English Department seminar room  
(2212 HMNSS). Light refreshments will be served.




SPRING 2009 CHASS SPEAKER SERIES ON SCIENCE FICTION



N. Katherine Hayles



“Vernor Vinge’s Rainbow’s End and the Macropolitics of Global  
Spatialization”






Wednesday, May 6

3:00 PM


English Department Conference Room

Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 2212


N. Katherine Hayles, Professor at Duke University, is the author of  
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the  
Twentieth Century (1984), Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in  
Contemporary Literature and Science (1990), How We Became Posthuman:  
Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999),  
Writing Machines (2002), and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital  
Subjects and Literary Texts (2005). She is currently at work on a book  
entitled How We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies.



For information, please contact: Rob Latham (951-827-1966; rob.latham at ucr.edu 
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