Xavia Publis's "Anima Ex Machina: Meatsuit Realness and Transformative Reenchantment"

Still on Dreamwidth break, but read something too cool not to share. This is from Xavia Publius's "Anima Ex Machina: Meatsuit Realness and Transformative Reenchantment," which is only publicly available in the (perversely paper-only) Digital Performance in Canada. (I ended up emailing Publius for a digital copy. She was very gracious about it.) Accordingly, this academic essay is mostly about technology, performance, and the immersion, enchantment, and rapture thereof, but there's a bit on pages 102-103 about "electric theology" and trance possession and kenosis (the divine emptying of self) in technology:

( Publius is dense and tough for me, so I will probably be digesting and rereading this. )