TY - ART TI - Re-Embodiment: Dancing with the Virtual Dervish: Virtual Bodies AU - Diane Gromala AB - "Through 'Dancing with the Virtual Dervish: Virtual Bodies, 'I explored the consciousness-altering bodily responses provoked by immersive VR technology and its potential to disrupt subjectivity. Discourses surrounding VR often link the most characteristic affect of VR on our proprioceptive sense -- of 'where we are in our bodies'-- to a desire to escape the constaints of the body, often termed 'disembodiment.' Contesting this traditionally masculinist notion as the primary desire of the user, I instead related the unfamiliar sensation and cognitive disruption to my strategies for dealing with chronic pain, that is, for a reconfigured and enhanced experience of my body, a 'e-embodiment.'" -- Diana Gromala, "Introduction" C3 - Web PY - 0000 LA - English UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/555/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-05-07 ER -