disembodiment

dis·em·bod·y

(dĭs′ĕm-bŏd′ē)

tr.v. dis·em·bod·ied, dis·em·bod·y·ing, dis·em·bod·ies

1. To free (the soul or spirit) from the body.

2. To divest of material existence or substance.

dis′em·bod′i·ment n.

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Archer, as the three strolled back through the park, was aware of this odd sense of disembodiment; and humbling as it was to his vanity it gave him the ghostly advantage of observing unobserved.

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An associated issue is, of course, the Adorno-fuelled fear of commodification of culture through mass media, as well as a dislike of the disembodiment of such performances, the cutting off from the cherished liveness of music.

Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars. By Laura Tunbridge

It was not these encroachments which were an eyesore in the city, but the empty spaces which now exist after their eviction and disembodiment. For a city of almost 25 million that witnessed such annihilation to sit idle and twiddle its thumbs is unbelievable and inexplicable.

The death of resistance

Robinson examines how composers and performers of telematic music--in which geographically dispersed musicians perform together via telecommunication technologies--negotiate issues related to latency and disembodiment. Robinson notes that latency adds a degree of indeterminacy to networked performances.

Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity

An untitled collage from 2015, where eyeballs float on wonky TV antennae, hints at zonked-out disembodiment.

Julie Becker: INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, LONDON

Ghosting speaks of simultaneous imitation and innovation; it registers hypervisibility and invisibility, hyperembodiment and disembodiment (Brown, 2015, p.

POSTCOLONIAL HAUNTINGS: GHOSTLY PRESENCE IN JAMAICA KINCAID'S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER

Because trauma has been inscribed in her body, Thelma adopts a clearly Cartesian approach in the face of her early sexualisation, an attitude that is materialised in the form of illness, a tangible mechanism to try to achieve disembodiment. At the level of the protagonist's embodied experience, phenomenological philosophy allows for the explanation of the causal relationship between sexual trauma and illness and, at the level of her storytelling, literary theories on narrativity are useful to analyse how Thelma's chaotic bodily experiences are transformed into a coherent account.

Cuerpos que hablan: abuso sexual, lenguaje, enfermedad y disociacion en Mouthing the Words, de Camilla Gibb

The proposal here is that the process of the media history of the Word in literate culture has led to the disembodiment of the Word.

The Embodiment of the Word: A Pastoral Approach to Scripture in a Digital Age

"The grease-tang of kung pao chicken in my mother's shirts,/in my mother's far-away look after shifts." He writes of a spiritual disembodiment evoked by the spatial, and the distance between uncoils into a landscape.

Chen Chen's Dreams: A Review of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

In sections on the semioticization of philosophy, historical connections, and Peirce challenged, they discuss such topics as the interconnection between his pragmatism and semiotics, the presence of Peirce's category of firstness in Schilling and Schopenhauer, the Charybdis of semiotics and Scylla of rhetoric: Peirce and Gorgias of Leontini on the rhetoric of being, hopes of Derrida's reading: the emergence of Peirce's texts in the poststructuralist context, and Peirce and the theory of disembodiment. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)

How to Make Our Signs Clear: C.S. Peirce and Semiotics

She stops eating meat and uses disembodiment to withdraw.

Prophetic world literature: International Lit Prize shortlist in touch with the times

The disembodiment of public opinion is what fascinates Poe, and the "way in which trivial, fragmented, individual speech is transformed into a formidable social power" (69) where the network does not "transmit so much as it echoes" (71).