Makeover: Writing the Body into the Posthuman Technoscape: Part One: Embracing the Posthuman
Timothy Lenoir · Configurations · 2002
The authors in this volume are rethinking one of the dominant metaphors of our time: the notion that digital information is disembodied. This urge to rethink stems from the quickening pace of an ongoing reconfiguration of almost all aspects of technical practice, as well as modes of communication and interaction, through smooth and unbroken articulation with intelligent machines: the transformation of the human into a new construction called the posthuman. N. Katherine Hayles has diagnosed this condition in her pathbreaking volume, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics: