Contributors
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Mark Hansen is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1994 from the University of California, Irvine. His interests include critical theory, cultural studies of science and technology, contemporary literature, and media culture. His books include Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing and New Philosophy for New Media (MIT Press, forthcoming early 2004). He is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. He has published essays on various topics including technology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Deleuze and Guattari's biophilosophy, the viral in William Burroughs, new media art, and information theory. His current projects include Bodies in Code, a study of digital culture; Becoming-Human, an ethics of the posthuman; and Fiction After Television, a study of the novel in the age of digital convergence.
N. Katherine Hayles is Professor of English and Design/Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hayles teaches and writes on relations of literature, science, and technology in the modern and contemporary period. Her recent book, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, won the René Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her last book, Writing Machines, won the Langer Prize for Outstanding Scholarship. She is currently at work on a study of how language and code interact in electronic environments, entitled "Coding the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to the Computer."
Timothy Lenoir is Professor of History of Science and Technology at Stanford University, and chair of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science. Since coming to Stanford in 1989 Lenoir has worked on the history of Silicon Valley and on the history of recent science and technology, particularly the history of science since 1965, the period when computer applications [End Page 371] began to be introduced into a number of fields in biomedicine. He has been interested in the ways in which computer graphics, artificial intelligence, imaging, Virtual Reality, and robotics have transformed the work practices of fields such as biochemistry, surgery, and genetics. Lenoir is engaged in two current projects, one on the history of computational biology and bioinformatics, and the other the history of interactive simulation, particularly military simulations, and videogames. Together with a group of colleagues and students Lenoir has been working on a project called "How they Got Game." They are designing a multi-sited installation scheduled to open in December 2003 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and at the Stanford Cantor Center for the Visual Arts addressing critical theoretical issues of new media.
Colin Milburn is a graduate student at Harvard University in the Departments of History of Science and English and American Literature and Language. His research focuses on the history of the biological sciences, the Gothic novel, science fiction and posthumanism. He is currently writing a dissertation on the history of monsters in the modern era.
Bernadette Wegenstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where she also directs the Film Studies program. A linguist and semiotician, she received her doctorate in Romance Languages and Cultures from Vienna University in 1997. Her book on the representation of AIDS in European media, Die Darstellung von AIDS in den Medien, appeared in 1998 with Vienna University Press. Recent and forthcoming publications include "Shooting up Heroines" in Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, ed. Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth (MIT Press, 2002); "The Medium is the Body" in Intermedialities, ed. Hugh Silverman (Continuum Press, forthcoming 2003); and "If you won't SHOOT me, at least DELETE me! Performance Art from 60s Wounds to 90s Extensions," in Data Made Flesh. Embodying Information, ed. Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle (Routledge, forthcoming 2003). [End Page 372]
