N. Katherine Hayles is James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, including How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines—physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory—signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm 'orderly disorder.' This is a timely, informative, and enormously thought-provoking book.- Nancy Craig Simmons (American Literature)

N. Katherine Hayles is James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, including How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines—physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory—signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm 'orderly disorder.' This is a timely, informative, and enormously thought-provoking book.- Nancy Craig Simmons (American Literature)

N. Katherine Hayles is James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, including How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines—physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory—signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm 'orderly disorder.' This is a timely, informative, and enormously thought-provoking book.- Nancy Craig Simmons (American Literature)