In How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012), N. Katherine Hayles asserted that we think “through, with, and alongside media” (p. 1). She argued for connections between cognition, technology, humanity, and evolution. She both described and performed these complex connections by engaging print-based texts, databases, historical technology, and digital archives.
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Screenshot from Tomasula's TOC. Image used with permission from Steve Tomasula.

References

Danielewski, Mark Z. (2006). Only revolutions: A novel. New York: Pantheon.

Hall, Steven. (2007). The raw shark texts: A novel. Toronto: HarperPerennial.

Hayles, N. Katherine. (2012). How we think: Digital media and contemporary technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tomasula, Steve. (2009). TOC: A new-media novel [DVD]. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Image Credits

How we think: A digital companion [Cover image]. (2012). Retrieved from howwethink.nkhayles.com

Only revolutions [Cover image]. (2006). Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40152.Only_Revolutions

The Raw Shark Texts [Cover image]. (2007). Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts

TOC: A new media novel [Cover image]. (2009).Retrieved from a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5838278-toc

TOC: A new media novel [Screen captures]. (2009). Retrieved from tocthenovel.com

[Untitled photograph of Jessica Thomsen]. (n.d.). Jessica Thomsen personal archives.

[Untitled photograph of N. Katherine Hayles]. (2014). Retrieved from nkhayles.com

[Untitled sketch of computer]. (n.d.). Jessica Thomsen personal archives.

Hayles connected humanity and technology in ways that match our intuitive understanding—ways that researchers and academics often resist. There is much to react to and question in her book, as the concepts are both provocative and progressive. How We Think illustrated tensions between humanity and technology: their historical contexts and the possibilities of their coevolution.