“I am a Wire Simply”: Morse Code, H. D.’s Asphodel, and Modernist Posthumanism

摘要: H. D.’s prose novel Asphodel has often been discussed in terms of its codes lesbian desire. A posthumanist lens, however, can instead illuminate the ways that informational code operates throughout novel. In this article, I use N. Katherine Hayles’s theories on dialectics pattern/randomness to parse how ’s Hermione engages a machinic identity with Morse code’s technologies and universal language. Although language ultimately fails, it nonetheless becomes heteroglossia allows communicate express herself varied ways. thus posit that, using literary techniques early twentieth century initiate these engagements, exhibits particularly modernist posthumanism.