Vanessa Chang
@vxchang.bsky.social
Writing, thinking, curating: art, technology, people, planet.
Dreaming, making, clowning by way of Singapore, Sydney, San Francisco.
Author of The Body Digital (Melville House, Nov 25).
http://www.vanessa-chang.com
Dreaming, making, clowning by way of Singapore, Sydney, San Francisco.
Author of The Body Digital (Melville House, Nov 25).
http://www.vanessa-chang.com
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Vanessa Chang
@vxchang.bsky.social
· Oct 14
The Body Digital by Vanessa Chang: 9781685891978 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body What is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today's world of blinding tec...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
My book The Body Digital comes out Nov 4 with Melville House! It’s a history of how our bodies, senses, and machines shape one another—from player pianos to AI. A call to build tech that nurtures, not numbs, what makes us human.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013...
Reposted by Vanessa Chang
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
Reposted by Vanessa Chang
@vxchang.bsky.social examines intimacy in the age of chatbots: “If the myth of Pygmalion imagines love perfected, distilled from the body, digital platforms deploy that ideal as a design principle.”
lithub.com/pygmalions-c...
lithub.com/pygmalions-c...
Pygmalion’s Chatbot: Vanessa Chang on Intimacy in the Age of AI
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT would soon be able to talk dirty, the Internet erupted in equal parts fascination and moral panic. Think pieces proliferated, debating the ethics o…
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@vxchang.bsky.social examines intimacy in the age of chatbots: “If the myth of Pygmalion imagines love perfected, distilled from the body, digital platforms deploy that ideal as a design principle.”
lithub.com/pygmalions-c...
lithub.com/pygmalions-c...
From player pianos to ChatGPT, every generation fears its machines will colonize human experience. Yet we always find ways to reclaim them. I talked with Andrew Keen about why our bodies have always been technological—and who gets to design that change.
🎧 keenon.substack.com/p/why-our-fe...
🎧 keenon.substack.com/p/why-our-fe...
Why Our Fear of Technology Is Nothing New—And Why That Should Give Us Hope: From Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT
Episode 2606: Vanessa Chang on the promise of The Body Digital
keenon.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
From player pianos to ChatGPT, every generation fears its machines will colonize human experience. Yet we always find ways to reclaim them. I talked with Andrew Keen about why our bodies have always been technological—and who gets to design that change.
🎧 keenon.substack.com/p/why-our-fe...
🎧 keenon.substack.com/p/why-our-fe...
My debut book The Body Digital launches next week!
Join me Nov 4 at 7 PM at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, Berkeley for a conversation with NPR's Kara Platoni about how our bodies and technologies shape each other—from Walkmans to AI.
📚 Free + open to all!
#TheBodyDigital #BookLaunch #BerkeleyEvents
Join me Nov 4 at 7 PM at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, Berkeley for a conversation with NPR's Kara Platoni about how our bodies and technologies shape each other—from Walkmans to AI.
📚 Free + open to all!
#TheBodyDigital #BookLaunch #BerkeleyEvents
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My debut book The Body Digital launches next week!
Join me Nov 4 at 7 PM at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, Berkeley for a conversation with NPR's Kara Platoni about how our bodies and technologies shape each other—from Walkmans to AI.
📚 Free + open to all!
#TheBodyDigital #BookLaunch #BerkeleyEvents
Join me Nov 4 at 7 PM at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, Berkeley for a conversation with NPR's Kara Platoni about how our bodies and technologies shape each other—from Walkmans to AI.
📚 Free + open to all!
#TheBodyDigital #BookLaunch #BerkeleyEvents
My book The Body Digital comes out Nov 4 with Melville House! It’s a history of how our bodies, senses, and machines shape one another—from player pianos to AI. A call to build tech that nurtures, not numbs, what makes us human.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013...
The Body Digital by Vanessa Chang: 9781685891978 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body What is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today's world of blinding tec...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
My book The Body Digital comes out Nov 4 with Melville House! It’s a history of how our bodies, senses, and machines shape one another—from player pianos to AI. A call to build tech that nurtures, not numbs, what makes us human.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797013...