N. 凯瑟琳·海尔斯（N. Katherine Hayles），美国杜克大学文学教授，长期开展跨学科文学研究，主要研究方向为文学与现代科技的关系，著述颇丰。

List of Figures  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

1 How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis  1

FIRST INTERLUDE

Practices and Processes in Digital Media  19

2 The Digital Humanities: Engaging the Issues  23

3 How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine  55

SECOND INTERLUDE

The Complexities of Contemporary Technogenesis  81

4 Tech-TOC: Complex Temporalities and Contemporary Technogenesis  85

5 Technogenesis in Action: Telegraph Code Books and the Place of the Human  123

THIRD INTERLUDE

Narrative and Database: Digital Media as Forms  171

6 Narrative and Database: Spatial History and the Limits of Symbiosis  175

7 Transcendent Data and Transmedia Narrative: Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts  199

8 Mapping Time, Charting Data: The Spatial Aesthetic of Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions  221

Notes  249

Works Cited  255

Index  271