Transcending the Body in the Digital (Middle) Ages: A Response to Spike Jonze's Her

I recently saw the movie Her (Spike Jonze 2013) and was struck by its fascination with the idea of a technological utopia that transcends the body and its limitations. The film addresses lots of important issues, including the ethics of designing Artificial Intelligence (are we prepared to treat machines and software as we do each other? If not, or unsure, then isn't it wrong to make AI as human as possible only to reject it from the community?); the capacity of human beings to break from anthropocentrism; and the destructive selfishness that often lays waste a love while at the same time serving as one of its conditions of possibility.