“MATERIALITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN PLAY”
09:35 PM Interview
BY LISA GITELMAN
Lisa Gitelman: Your book (How We Became Posthuman, Chicago 1999) is one that I find myself returning to again and again. I keep discovering new things in it, and it keeps informing the work I do on technologies of representation. Are you still working on the same or on related issues? Could you describe your current project?
N. Katherine Hayles: Right now I am finishing up a book called Writing Machines to be published in September 2002 with MIT Press in their new Mediawork series edited by Peter Lunenfeld. It carries on some of the arguments of Posthuman but in a different vein. I have become very interested in the possibility of media-specific criticism–a mode of critical inquiry attentive to the materiality of the medium in which a literary work is produced.
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