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In this timely, provocative, and ambitious re-framing of post-humanist studies, Miccoli turns away from the alluring glint of the machine and the fetish on digital networks, attending instead to the network of social relations that undergird the human/technology interface. Poignantly, he theorizes the suffering embrace of a human body, attempting to represent her pain in and through the technologies and technological systems both grand and mundane that shape, and are in turn shaped by, her everyday life.--Bret Benjamin

In this timely, provocative, and ambitious re-framing of post-humanist studies, Miccoli turns away from the alluring glint of the machine and the fetish on digital networks, attending instead to the network of social relations that undergird the human/technology interface. Poignantly, he theorizes the suffering embrace of a human body, attempting to represent her pain in and through the technologies and technological systems—both grand and mundane—that shape, and are in turn shaped by, her everyday life. -- Bret Benjamin, Associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at University of Albany, SUNY In this rigorous and sophisticated analysis, Anthony Miccoli explores the relationship between humanity and technology, providing an informed history of posthuman studies and charting new territory....Miccoli has written a book worthy of close attention and capable of leading posthuman studies down new pathways. * The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *

In this timely, provocative, and ambitious re-framing of post-humanist studies, Miccoli turns away from the alluring glint of the machine and the fetish on digital networks, attending instead to the network of social relations that undergird the human/technology interface. Poignantly, he theorizes the suffering embrace of a human body, attempting to represent her pain in and through the technologies and technological systems--both grand and mundane--that shape, and are in turn shaped by, her everyday life. -- Bret Benjamin

In this timely, provocative, and ambitious re-framing of post-humanist studies, Miccoli turns away from the alluring glint of the machine and the fetish on digital networks, attending instead to the network of social relations that undergird the human/technology interface. Poignantly, he theorizes the suffering embrace of a human body, attempting to represent her pain in and through the technologies and technological systems-both grand and mundane-that shape, and are in turn shaped by, her everyday life. -- Bret Benjamin, Associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at University of Albany, SUNY In this rigorous and sophisticated analysis, Anthony Miccoli explores the relationship between humanity and technology, providing an informed history of posthuman studies and charting new territory....Miccoli has written a book worthy of close attention and capable of leading posthuman studies down new pathways. * The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *

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Anthony Miccoli is assistant professor of Communication and Philosophy at Western State College of Colorado.

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