The Body Digital (EBK)

"A contemplative and deeply profound meditation on the deepest questions of human existence." —Science

"A poetic and well-observed text, which offers the reader a different way of understanding humanity’s relationship with technology... the reader is likely to come away enriched and perhaps even hopeful."
—Physics World

"A welcome road map for those trying to make sense of the fear and hype around new technologies like AI." —Publishers Weekly

"The Body Digital offers a rich and poetic set of insights that suggest our technologies are intimately bound up in a profound desire to connect with each other and with the sensuous world around us." —Kat Mustatea, author of Voidopolis

"The Body Digital delivers a powerful and much-needed counter-narrative to the myth of a disembodied digital existence ... wonderfully accessible yet intellectually rigorous." —DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller)

"A beautifully fresh synthesis ... provocative contemporary critique that helps us see our bodies and our tech with fresh eyes." —Sara Hendren, author of What Can a Body Do?

"The Body Digital is a propulsive read that sheds new light on everything from automata through AI, vinyl through fiction. Anyone who feels worried about what AI might mean for human life will want to pick this book up." —Jennifer L. Lieberman, author of Power Lines: Electricity in American Life

"What does it mean for bodies and machines to co-evolve? Vanessa Chang’s marvelous meditation on this question will tune your senses to patterns of technological change generations in the making. Lyrical, rigorous, intellectually omnivorous." —Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University

"A contemplative and deeply profound meditation on the deepest questions of human existence." —Science

"A poetic and well-observed text, which offers the reader a different way of understanding humanity’s relationship with technology... the reader is likely to come away enriched and perhaps even hopeful."
—Physics World

"A welcome road map for those trying to make sense of the fear and hype around new technologies like AI." —Publishers Weekly

"The Body Digital offers a rich and poetic set of insights that suggest our technologies are intimately bound up in a profound desire to connect with each other and with the sensuous world around us." —Kat Mustatea, author of Voidopolis

"The Body Digital delivers a powerful and much-needed counter-narrative to the myth of a disembodied digital existence ... wonderfully accessible yet intellectually rigorous." —DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller)

"A beautifully fresh synthesis ... provocative contemporary critique that helps us see our bodies and our tech with fresh eyes." —Sara Hendren, author of What Can a Body Do?

"The Body Digital is a propulsive read that sheds new light on everything from automata through AI, vinyl through fiction. Anyone who feels worried about what AI might mean for human life will want to pick this book up." —Jennifer L. Lieberman, author of Power Lines: Electricity in American Life

"What does it mean for bodies and machines to co-evolve? Vanessa Chang’s marvelous meditation on this question will tune your senses to patterns of technological change generations in the making. Lyrical, rigorous, intellectually omnivorous." —Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University