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“I Sing the Body Electric” – Editorial | 11www.jrfm.eu 2016, 2/1, 9–14 shot of the film shows an overhead perspective; we hear Lucy’s voice: “La vie nous a été donnée il y a un milliard d’années. Maintenant, vous savez quoi en faire” (Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it). Another example is the science fiction film Her (Spike Jonze, USA 2013), again with actor Scarlett Johansson. In Her we never get to see Johansson; we only hear her voice coming out of a computer, a mobile phone, or headphones. Her is disembodied, yet, because of her voice and the way she talks, she has a strong bodily presence, a bodily presence we cannot see on a visual level but nonetheless see, feel, hear, and experience with our other senses. In both films, the main themes of our special issue are interrelated. In Lucy, through a bodily intervention via a drug, the protagonist becomes a supernatural being. While in the first stage of this transformation she uses technology as a tool for communica- tion and as proof of her superhuman capabilities, in the end she merges with technol- ogy (the supercomputer) and transcends her physical existence, leaving behind only Fig. 2: Only her clothes, a memory stick and her voice remain. LUCY (Luc Besson, Fr 2014), 1:26:45. Fig. 3: Lucy’s answer to the question „Where is she?“ on a mobile phone. LUCY (Luc Besson, Fr 2014), 1:27:52.