Katherine Hayles interview: computational media are our inextricable symbionts
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-09
Dan Faggella released his full interview with Katherine Hayles, author of the influential 1999 book How We Became Posthuman, on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Her core take on human-machine symbiosis: "Computational media are our inextricable symbionts. And if all of computational media was fried tonight at midnight, within six months 90% of the human species would have died." The conversation covers her evolving thinking on posthuman life, from one of the field's founding voices.
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