N. Katherine Hayles Lecturing at UWM

What Does Autonomy Mean in the Age of Nanotechnology?
Body Boundaries and Recursivity in `The Diamond Age’"
a lecture

Friday, November 4
3:30 pm
CRT 175

N. Katherine Hayles is the John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at UCLA. Literature and science of the 20th century, electronic textuality, modern and postmodern American and British fiction, critical theory, and science fiction rank among her fields of expertise. She is the author of many articles and books, including How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (Chicago, 1999), Writing Machines (MIT, 2002), and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (Chicago, 2005).

For more information: Please visit www.21st.uwm.edu, call 414. 229.4141, or e-mail kkramer@uwm.edu

Sponsored by: Lecture co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies, College of Letters & Science, with support from the Graduate School, as well as the Eta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Department of English , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.