Grant Bollmer is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at North Carolina State University, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and the PhD Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Media and Communications at The University of Sydney.

• 1. Introduction: Connectivity, Flow, CitizenshipPart One: Network Archaeologies 2. Biology: Vital Technologies, Anatomical Networks3. Society: Railroads, Red Scares, and Racism4. Economy: Banking on ConnectionPart Two: Nodal Citizens5. Death: Living Forever as Automated Data6. Labor: Giving Life to (Mobile) Fixed Capital7. Truth: The Politics of Performing the Total SelfPart Three: Beyond Social Media, or, a World Without People8. Contagion: The Inevitable Failure of Connectivity9. (Political) Theory: How to Disempower Friends and Pathologize PeopleBibliographyIndex

Part an archaeology of connectivity, part critical analysis of contemporary culture, Inhuman Networks offers an inspiring take for media studies. Grant Bollmer’s rich, multi-layered book shows that social media does not just mediate but performs a subtle yet effective moral code: the networks prescribe senses of the self, community, value and direction. The so-called human exists only if it routes.

Grant Bollmer is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at North Carolina State University, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and the PhD Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Media and Communications at The University of Sydney.

• 1. Introduction: Connectivity, Flow, CitizenshipPart One: Network Archaeologies 2. Biology: Vital Technologies, Anatomical Networks3. Society: Railroads, Red Scares, and Racism4. Economy: Banking on ConnectionPart Two: Nodal Citizens5. Death: Living Forever as Automated Data6. Labor: Giving Life to (Mobile) Fixed Capital7. Truth: The Politics of Performing the Total SelfPart Three: Beyond Social Media, or, a World Without People8. Contagion: The Inevitable Failure of Connectivity9. (Political) Theory: How to Disempower Friends and Pathologize PeopleBibliographyIndex

Part an archaeology of connectivity, part critical analysis of contemporary culture, Inhuman Networks offers an inspiring take for media studies. Grant Bollmer’s rich, multi-layered book shows that social media does not just mediate but performs a subtle yet effective moral code: the networks prescribe senses of the self, community, value and direction. The so-called human exists only if it routes.

Grant Bollmer is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at North Carolina State University, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and the PhD Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Media and Communications at The University of Sydney.

• 1. Introduction: Connectivity, Flow, CitizenshipPart One: Network Archaeologies 2. Biology: Vital Technologies, Anatomical Networks3. Society: Railroads, Red Scares, and Racism4. Economy: Banking on ConnectionPart Two: Nodal Citizens5. Death: Living Forever as Automated Data6. Labor: Giving Life to (Mobile) Fixed Capital7. Truth: The Politics of Performing the Total SelfPart Three: Beyond Social Media, or, a World Without People8. Contagion: The Inevitable Failure of Connectivity9. (Political) Theory: How to Disempower Friends and Pathologize PeopleBibliographyIndex

Part an archaeology of connectivity, part critical analysis of contemporary culture, Inhuman Networks offers an inspiring take for media studies. Grant Bollmer’s rich, multi-layered book shows that social media does not just mediate but performs a subtle yet effective moral code: the networks prescribe senses of the self, community, value and direction. The so-called human exists only if it routes.