Chapter 1
Media, materiality, and the human
A conversation with N. Katherine Hayles
STEVE WILEY: You argued nearly twenty years ago, in your essay on the materiality of informatics,1 that theorists need to resist the “absorption of embodiment” into discourse, which you characterized as typical of Foucault’s analysis and other kinds of abstract studies of power. So the idea of thinking about the materiality of information is not a new question for you, but it was new to many of the presenters at the NC State symposium, “Materializing Communication and Rhetoric, Technologies, Infrastructures, and Flows.” The symposium brought together scholars from a range of ...
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