the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
N. Katherine Hayles
Transcendent Data and Transmedia Narrative: Steven Hall’s “The Raw Shark Texts”
This lecture took place on April 8th, 2011 at 6:30 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union
Lecture introduction
As databases become dominant cultural forms, narratives are morphing to exploit ecological niches that enable them to compete and cooperate with data. The shape and stakes of these transformations are explored through Steven Hall’s visual/verbal transmedia novel, The Raw Shark Texts.
About N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles is Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies at the Literature Program, Duke University. She teaches and writes on the relations of science, technology and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her book How We Became Posthuman won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her book Writing Machines won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her forthcoming book is entitled How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies.
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