Painting in a dry but radiant, even combustible, style (for example in the painting "Parade amoureuse" (Love Parade) (1918)) Picabia raises the issue of a bottomless contemporary dilemma - the interface/dialectic between body and machine. If in cyberspace our ontologies are adrift vis-a-vis how personal subjectivity was once understood, Picabia's central idea in "Parade amoureuse" leads us right up to that slippery elocution between mechanical embodiment and subjectivity - between physical embodiment and machine assistance/circumvention - where we viractually teeter this very moment. Undoubtedly, with the Dada mechanomorphic period Picabia illustrates nicely our spatialized digital paradigm by mixing implied bodies with mechanical schematics. Here the cyborg body receives an ecstatic capability through the repetitions of machinery. Of course what "disappears" or is "disembodied" is not the material body but an abstract notion of the self. This de-presentation is followed by a reconstruction of embodiment into what is now commonly known as the posthuman condition.