Internet and Decorporation: Sensory Reconfigurations of the Body in the Techno-Realist Age
Religions December 19, 2025 Anamaria Filimon-Benea, Ioana Vid
This article examines how Internet technologies reconfigure human sensory experience and induce decorporation—the experiential dissociation of consciousness from the physical body. Drawing on Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and theological anthropology, the study demonstrates that digital immersion amplifies certain senses (vision, hearing) while anesthetizing others (touch, kinesthesia),...