SOURCE: "Cybernetic Fiction and Postmodern Science," in New Literary History, Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter, 1989, pp. 373-96.
In the following essay, Porush analyzes the place of cybernetics—in which both humans and machines are viewed as systems of information—in postmodern fiction.
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