"I Sing the body electric". Body, Voice, Technology and Religion

In his controversial poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, Walt Whitman glorified the human body in all its forms. The world according to Whitman is physical and sensual. Bodies are our fundamental way of being – being in the here and now, being in time and space. Bodies we have and bodies we are are as...

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Main Authors: Christian Wessely, Milja Radovic, Theresia Heimerl, Johanna Stiebert, Claudia Setzer, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Florian Heesch, Elham Manea
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