"Parisi provides an engaging history of how humans have interacted with a range of electric and electronic technologies to understand and explore how the sensation of touch actually works, and how it can be simulated. The book effectively highlights the need for more critical analysis of haptic technology and its future. The book is exhaustively researched and includes useful explanatory notes and images."-CHOICE
"Archaeologies of Touch is a fascinating reading about spectacular experiments, forgotten appliances and scientists who have partially come to the fore."-Svenska Dagbladet
"Archaeologies of Touch is a significant achievement in media research. It is lucid, scrupulous, rigorously grounded, and exceedingly informed without ever getting mired in high theory or inconsequential historical asides."-Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
"Archaeologies of Touch is a work of deep erudition and study, carefully plotted, and written with penetrating insight, establishing Parisi at the vanguard of the developing field of haptic media studies."-Media Theory
"This is a remarkable book, solidly documented and will potentially enlighten a vast number of people working with cultural and social technologies."-Neural
"Filled with archival illustrations, schematics, and images of the various lesser known technologies and experimental research that demonstrate the long history of research of touch, Parisi's Archaeologies of Touch is vital read for scholars concerned with all things haptic."-New Media and Society
"In thoroughly tracing the connections between touch and technoscience, Parisi offers a powerful and timely argument that encourages a serious reconsideration of touch's technogenesis."-Configurations
"Archaeologies of Touch is an ambitious book chock-full of fascinating experiments and anecdotes."-Technology and Culture