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""The Body Digital offers a nuanced portrait of the human, as told through the machines we design and build. Each chapter names an aspect of the body as a locus for our impulse for machine-making: voice, hand, ear, foot. What emerges is a rich and poetic set of insights that suggest our technologies, far more than mere artifacts of human intellect, are intimately bound up in an urgent and profound desire to connect with each other and with the sensuous world around us."" —Kat Mustatea, author of Voidopolis and Bodymouth ""The Body Digital is a propulsive read that explores how technologies can reinvent the way we understand ourselves, and how those reinventions inspire new innovations in turn. Impressive in scope, this book guides readers through engaging examples from across the globe, expanding conversations across disciplines from disability studies through technology studies. Tracing the feedback loop between bodies and new inventions, Vanessa Chang sheds new light on everything from automata through AI, vinyl through fiction. Anyone who feels worried about what AI might mean for human life or interested in the history of the human-built world will want to pick this book up and discuss it with friends."" —Jennifer L. Lieberman, author of Power Lines: Electricity in American Life

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Vanessa Chang is the Director of Programs at Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. She has been a lecturer in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts, lead curator with CODAME Art & Tech, and a SOMArts Curatorial Resident 2019-2020. She has a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, where she researched electronic gesture across the arts and was a Geballe Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, where she also led the Graphic Narrative Project. Her essays and reviews have been published in Slate, Noema, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Wired.

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