Paper Proposal

Texts: Avatar (2010), Nova, Cyborg Manifesto - Haraway, Mophologies: Race as Visual Technology - Gonzalez, The Witch's Flight - Keeling.

"A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction."

Society has boxed itself into 'coded texts', which we use to define the human individual. Our attempt to simplify humanity has only created a more complex referential categorical system for the human identity. It has entered into a realm of complexity that results in contradictions, but unfortunately we did not allow for contradictory-flexibility. A being of hybridity is able to achieve mobility and flexibility within this categorical system.

While the film, Avatar, grants hybridity through technological mobility it also suggests an abandoning of the old referential system - Jake's human body. The novel, Nova, however suggests accepting the pain and rage, which is necessary for growth. In order to do this, this advancement should happen organically and not enhanced through technological means. I'll be analyzing Nova and Avatar through the scope of texts read during the course.