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Explore Tech + Humanity w/ Vanessa Chang’s New Book “The Body Digital” (Berkeley)

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
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Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore | 2904 College Avenue Berkeley, CA
East Bay

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Join us at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore on Tuesday, November 4 at 7:00 PM when DR. VANESSA CHANG will to present her new book The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT. Vanessa will be joined in conversation by KARA PLATONI.
In this wide-ranging and fascinating study, Vanessa Chang takes us on a historical tour of the interactions between our bodies and machines, showing that the advent of new technologies has always been met with varied reactions, from misplaced fear to tragic over-optimism. The result is cultural critique of the highest order and a profound demonstration of the eternal truth that in order to understand the future, we must look to the past.
DR. 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.
KARA PLATONI is the author of We Have The Technology a book about hacking the body and sensory perception. She’s currently a senior editor on NPR’s Business Desk, and was previously the senior science editor at Wired.

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Cost: FREE*
*Free Event but requires registration on eventbrite.com
Categories: In Person, Lectures & Workshops, Literature
Address: 2904 College Avenue Berkeley, CA