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# N. Katherine Hayles

> Directory entry from Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/people/n-katherine-hayles), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work. Roles and affiliations as published.

- **Role:** Editorial board; journal author (Vol. 2025)
- **Affiliation:** UCLA; Duke University
- **Group:** Editorial board
- **Website:** https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/hayles-katherine-n/

Literary theorist who writes on the relations of literature, science and technology; author of *How We Became Posthuman*, *Writing Machines* and *Postprint*. She is on the journal's editorial board and in the advisors/network list. In the corpus she wrote *Modes of Cognition* (designed by Knoth & Renner), which sets out criteria for cognition that extend to large language models, and she spoke at the Planetary Sapience Symposium.

## In the corpus

- [Modes of Cognition](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/modesofcognition) (2025-05-10)

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