This article explores the ways in which some female-authored solarpunk stories employ cyborg models developed by feminist cyberpunk fiction order to continue with its traditional role of liberating/liberated ontological subject. The text contemporary critical readings and analyzes Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland (2008), Camille Meyers’ “Solar Child” (2017), Brenda Cooper’s “For Snake Power” (2018) way ...

This paper explores the determinants of productivity gaps within European Union in computing, chemicals, basic metals and food manufacturing – four sectors that vary terms intensity sectoral R&D. Our analysis reveals main causes these are unembodied or disembodied R&D activity embodied purchased equipment machinery, their interplay. While both associated positively to closing gaps, interaction ...

Understanding compositional practices is a major goal of musicology and music theory. Compositional have been traditionally viewed as disembodied idiosyncratic. This view makes it hard to integrate musical creativity into our understanding the general cognitive processes underlying meaning construction. To overcome this unnecessary isolation composition from science, in conceptual analysis, we ...

During the rubber hand illusion (RHI), subjects experience an artificial hand as part of their own body, while the real hand is subject to a sort of 'disembodiment'. Can this altered belief about the body also affect physiological mechanisms involved in body-ownership, such as motor control? Here we ask whether the excitability of the motor pathways to the real (disembodied) hand are affected b...

Mixed Presence Groupware (MPG) is software that connects collocated and distributed collaborators together in a shared visual workspace. The problem is that collaborators in MPG focus their collaborative energies almost exclusively on their collocated partners, ignoring their distributed counterparts. This arises because remote collaborators are disembodied when compared to their collocated coh...

Nearly four years ago I spoke at the Second World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology in Austin; and now I am speaking to the Fifth World Conference, at which SDPS is joined by a sister society, the Software Engineering Society. On both occasions, I have relied upon technology — appearing not in material form but as mind, that is to say, not by physical transport but represen...

Endemic corruption and fervent Christianity dominate Papua New Guinea (PNG) public discourse. We draw on ethnographic material—including the emplacement of a King James V Bible in Parliament—to contextualise discourse Christian measures against within evolving Guinean ideas about witnessing. Both invoke specific kind observer: disembodied, reliable witness capable discerning people's intentions...

Locked-in syndrome (LIS) following ventral brainstem damage is the most severe form of motor disability. Patients are completely entrapped in an unresponsive body despite consciousness is preserved. Although the main feature of LIS is this extreme motor impairment, minor non-motor dysfunctions such as motor imagery defects and impaired emotional recognition have been reported suggesting an alte...

Social life is filled with emotional information. Friends smile and embrace. Enemies frown and shrug. Lovers flirt with eyes and bodies. Sales people may grin and rattle with excitement or give us that “don’t bother me” look, just as students may look at us with admiration or boredom. Cats and dogs, too, wiggle with joy or tremble with anxiety. Even computers tease us with emoticons or flash al...

We describe a general computational method for designing proteins that bind a surface patch of interest on a target macromolecule. Favorable interactions between disembodied amino acid residues and the target surface are identified and used to anchor de novo designed interfaces. The method was used to design proteins that bind a conserved surface patch on the stem of the influenza hemagglutinin...