Digital applied sciences provide the potential for shooting, storing, and manipulating move, abstracting it from the physique and reworking it into numerical info. In Moving with out a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what fairly occurs while the physicality of circulate is translated right into a numerical code by way of a technological process. Drawing at the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this doesn't volume to a technical evaluation of software's capability to list movement yet calls for a philosophical rethinking of what circulate itself is, or can develop into. Discussing the improvement of alternative audiovisual instruments and the shift from analog to electronic, she specializes in a few choreographic realizations of this evolution, together with works by means of Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. all through, Portanova considers those applied sciences and dances as how one can imagine -- instead of simply practice or understand -- stream. She distinguishes the choreographic inspiration from the functionality: a physique plays a move, and a brain thinks or choreographs a dance. equally, she sees the circulation from analog to electronic as a shift in notion instead of easily in technical consciousness. examining choreographic applied sciences for his or her ability to revamp the best way circulate is believed, Moving and not using a Body deals an ambitiously conceived mirrored image at the ontological implications of the come upon among circulate and technological systems.