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An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network,Used
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With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyos commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine, Michael Fisch provides a nuanced perspective on how Tokyos commuter train network embodies the lived realities of technology in our modern world. Drawing on his finegrained knowledge of transportation, work, and everyday life in Tokyo, Fisch shows how fitting into a system that operates on the extreme edge of sustainability can take a physical and emotional toll on a community while also creating a collective way of lifeone with unique limitations and possibilities.An Anthropology of the Machine is a creative ethnographic study of the culture, history, and experience of commuting in Tokyo. At the same time, it is a theoretically ambitious attempt to think through our very relationship with technology and our possible ecological futures. Fisch provides an unblinking glimpse into what it might be like to inhabit a future in which more and more of our infrastructureand the planet itselfwill have to operate beyond capacity to accommodate our evergrowing population.
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