Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles, Isabel Pedersen and Andrew Iliadis (eds) (2020) 288pp., US$35.00 paperback, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, ISBN: 978-0262538558 Body-centrism: bridges and boundaries ‘Embodied computing’ is defined by the editors of this volume as ‘body-centred computing’ which sets a precedent for chapters to consider digital technologies vis-à-vis their relationship to animal bodies ‘through computational materiality and, more importantly, passively embodied in the user’s enhanced body’ (p.5). The term challenges broad perceptions of the ‘weightlessness’ and ‘lightness’ of technologies (the non-corporeality of digital information) in a manner akin to comments made by Donna Haraway’s rearticulation of the cyborg as an embodied figure (Haraway, 1991, p.154).

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Agnes Horvath, Magic and the Will to Science: A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality
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Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley and Friends, Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at our Universities
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Bas de Boer, How Scientific Instruments Speak: Postphenomenology and Technological Mediations in Neuroscientific Practice
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Bjørn Lomborg, False Alarm
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How does innovation arise in the bicycle sector? The users’ role and their betrayal in the case of the ‘gravel bike’
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