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This chapter investigates the terminology ‘digital bodies’ in relation to our temporal existence. Here the body is not extended or enhanced, but reconfigured through the embodiment of today’s temporal system. This system is undergoing perpetual change, especially influenced and altered by new technologies. Subsequently, these digital technologies are shaping our temporal experience, and play a determining part in forming and reconfiguring us to who we are, as digital bodies. Schmid argues for an understanding and reactivation of bodily rhythms through artistic practice. The intent is to overcome the conventionality of present-day thinking about temporal patterns by developing a kind of temporal utopia, termed uchronia. The research challenges thought patterns regarding the temporal structure of contemporary, technology driven life.
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Schmid, H. (2017). The Embodiment of Time. In: Broadhurst, S., Price, S. (eds) Digital Bodies. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95241-0_7
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