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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