Roberto Marchesini, Technophysiology, or How Technology Modifies the Self, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023, 242pp

shaping us during our phylogenesis.Based on an extraordinarily rich palette of scientific resourcesfrom archaeology to evolutionary biology, from the neurosciences to psychology, from sociology to philosophy-Marchesini's analysis explores the porose configuration of the human: its dependency on-as opposed to independence from-the world, the reasons which make the cyborg the most appropriate representational model of the human species, the way in which today's rocketing technological acceleration is impacting on our identity, the dangers we are naively (and stupidly) overlooking, and the precautions that we should take instead.Marchesini's work remains as scientifically impeccable, thought-provoking and challenging as ever.But this time he even surpasses himself by exploring one of the tenets of his posthumanism more deeply and comprehensively: the fact that we are embodied creatures.This means that the environment in which we live is a part of us rather than a mere container.We are all interconnected-a far broader and deeper truth than what is implied when we speak or think of the web.The book's underpinning idea is that humans are phylogenetically and ontogenetically interconnected not only with other humans but with nonhuman organic and non-organic entities alike.The niche in which we live-both natural and technological-is a host because we inhabit it as much as we are inhabited by it.Indeed, the niche is one of the factors that shape our body.