disembodied

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By the end of the book, the reader appreciates even better how misleading it is to think of cellphone calls and the internet as a whole as occurring in an abstract elsewhere, a disembodied cyberspace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

First comes the warning, that disembodied voice over the tannoy: "Your attention please. Air siren in the city. Please move to the shelter on the minus second floor."

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

In his fall 1971 convocation address at the University of Alberta, McLuhan told students that in an electronic world, people become “discarnate data, a sort of disembodied spirit coexisting and functioning simultaneously in diverse locations.”

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

“There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy,” says the disembodied voice.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

I recognized the owner of the disembodied voice.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane