It is an emergency this age of automatons and the separation between body and head. The crisis of the severed head is a two-ways crisis. On one hand it forms the detachment of the brain-worker (the cognitariat) to her bodily experiences (and the empathy-building and emancipatory potentials of such experiences) and on the other the oppressive making of mere bodies for labor - bodies restricted from entering the space of cognitive undertakings. 
A reemerging concern in my PhD project has been searching for ways to reconnect bodily experiences and understandings to the restricted head-space of contemporary dread, alienation and inescapable recurrence. 

It sits with me, this notion that horror wants to do things with your body. That horror cinema is literally the only cinema genre wanting you to look away from the screen. And just perhaps, the horror flick does allow for a jump-scare into the bodily again. Just like the horror movie spectator is urged to direct concern towards her body and her fellow bodies in the movie theater, so too must the heads that manufacture and program the systems and machines (and yes, holds the tools to dismantle these) be reconnected to the bodies of oppressive manual labor. In this meeting they could very possibly recognize the forces they are both subjugated to and the change of systems as common goal. 

In a presentation bringing together artistic work, research material, transrealism, horror movies and applied special effects, I want to draw up a haunted space of separated alienated heads searching desperately for bodies to connect with. And suggest the sowing-back-on of these heads, to new bodies, thereby creating magnificent ‘monstered’ entities for the renarrating of our contemporary political times.