This paper brings to light an anthropocentric bias against mediatised, virtualised and cyborgian representations of the human dancer, revealing how the integration of technologies and corporeal bodies calls into question hierarchical dualisms between ...
This paper brings to light an anthropocentric bias against mediatised, virtualised and cyborgian representations of the human dancer, revealing how the integration of technologies and corporeal bodies calls into question hierarchical dualisms between bodily presence and absence, liveness and mediatedness, physicality and virtuality. In examining critical discourses and theories that range from Phelan and Auslander to Haraway and Hayles, I propose posthumanism as a critical standpoint which helps emancipate the non-human and its disembodiment in digital dances from anthropocentric bias and Cartesian mind/body division.