N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthough
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English Pages 250 Year 2017
Table of contents :
Content: Prologue: transforming how we see the world --
The cognitive nonconscious and the costs of consciousness. Nonconscious cognitions: humans and others --
Interplays between nonconscious cognition and consciousness --
The cognitive nonconscious and the new materialisms --
The costs of consciousness: Tom McCarthy's Remainder and Peter Watts's Blindsight --
Cognitive assemblages. Cognitive assemblages: technical agency and human interactions --
Temporality and cognitive assemblages: finance capital, derivatives, and high-frequency trading --
Intuition, cognitive assemblages, and politico-historico affects: Colson Whitehead's The intuitionist --
The utopian potential of cognitive assemblages