Identity
An annotated collection of 3 books & essays on identity, spanning 1985 to 1999. Featuring works by Donna Haraway, Sherry Turkle, N. Katherine Hayles — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Haraway's manifesto argues that the boundaries between human and machine, physical and non-physical, male and female, are not natural facts but political constructions — and that the figure of the cyborg, a hybrid of org…
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
If The Second Self studied what people projected onto computers, Life on the Screen studied what they became inside them. Turkle spent years observing and interviewing participants in MUDs — text-based virtual environmen…
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
Hayles traced a single, consequential assumption through three waves of cybernetics, postwar science fiction, and contemporary information theory: the idea that information can be separated from the material substrate th…