However, for 21st century anthropology, the symbol of the “elaborate machine” and the “quasi-organism” are becoming increasingly relevant as world society becomes progressively interconnected not only in human-human interactions, but also within an intersecting system of human, animal, technological and biological systems. In Anthropological Futures, Michael MJ Fischer discusses the fusion of “culture, nature, body, science, technology” by which we “recalibrate, recompose, revise, and renew the anthropology to come” (2009:xii). Within his book, Fischer approaches anthropology by engaging its transmutable form and its ability to address the growing integration of biology, technology, and science within culture. Michael Fisch's ethnography “Tokyo's Commuter Train Suicides and the Society of Emergence” discusses the intertwining of technology and culture that Fischer addresses. The “corporealization” of Tokyo's rail network is a fusion of human and nonhuman actors (Fisch 2013:331). In order to fully address the assimilation of technology and culture within the Tokyo commuter rail system and its regulation of so-called "physical accidents", Fisch explains both processes through a simultaneous humanization of