"Situated at a frontier of cutting-edge experimentation in neuroscience and brain-machine interfaces, The Connector examines how humans and machines come to live with/among/against one another in the pursuit of integrating a neuroprosthetic limb into ones body and life. Drawing upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork spanning laboratory, clinic, industry, and domestic sites throughout Sweden, Alexandra Middleton chronicles clinical trials developing neuromusculoskeletal prosthetic technologies controlled by users neural impulses, aiming to offer a functional human arm replacement, restore lost sensory feedback (touch) and relieve the phantom limb pain of amputees. These cases constitute the first in the world in which such intimately integrated prostheses are taken out of the laboratory and used freely by people at home, all while still being studied in the clinical trial. The Connector traces the consequence of this reality, examining how an assumedly bidirectional connection between human body and prosthetic machine open-up to a third system, a social world. Middleton examines how embodied sensory experience gets communicated, translated, mediated, and engineered upon, in both formal and informal experimental sites, through peoples bodies and experiences of machine-integrated living, and how their homes and domestic lives become key, if not also obfuscated, sites of this process"-- Provided by publisher.