tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post271091011250485032..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Final Project proposalAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-9499003602593195292009-04-10T21:55:00.000-04:002009-04-10T21:55:00.000-04:00First, tentative question - is it a good thing, a ...First, tentative question - is it a good thing, a bad thing, both or neither to be stuck between two worlds? For Haraway, of course, it's ultimately a good thing, and if I remember right that's the one thing I struggled with re: your midterm project - I thought you had interesting things to say, but that you were overly unsure about what you wanted, or where you were going with it. I'd like to see a little more direction in that area this time around.<BR/><BR/>I like the adventure you're proposing in the second paragraph. One idea I have for a vaguely similar CYOA (of course, I've never even started it) would include choices to dictate whether the character wants to be, e.g., male or female, gay or straight, etc - and then certain aspects of the narrative are determined by the chosen identity. For Haraway, of course (and, I think, for you) cyborgs are fluid and ambiguous in their identity.<BR/><BR/>Let me put that another way - I think maybe this is a CYOA where you're having the reader choose not so much what to do as who to <I>be</I>. Or something like that. I like the idea - and yet, I need to note that I'm still very uncertain about what you think. Is this a desirable or undesirable fluidity? Will the story be such that we can emerge with a range of feelings about, not only the particular path taken, but the (un)desirability of a cyborg identity itself?Adam Johnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11588769281227456640noreply@blogger.com