Two Sides to Everything (and a bit in the middle)

The world in 2 sides...

G(O)OD =/= (D)EVIL

LIFE =/= DEATH
NATURE =/= CULTURE
LIGHT =/= DARK
HAPPY =/= SAD
WHITE =/= BLACK
MALE =/= FEMALE
LAND =/= SEA/SKY
HUMAN =/= NON-HUMAN
YOUNG =/= OLD
PHYSICAL =/= DIGITAL

(Left is Traditionally Privileged over the Right)

Structuralism is how we make meaning in the world. Where there's life there will naturally be death.

What really interested me was the table that included Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as not good or evil but in reality Dr Jekyll wasn't all good to start with so he should be closer to Evil. You have the opposite in Vader however as he started good (supposedly) became bad (supposedly) and then became good again. (he's also a cyborg which leads nicely to...)

I thought that calling CGI characters Cyborgs was strange but an interesting idea considering they are computer generate figures with human images which is essentially what a cyborg is.

We compared Comics and Novels for binary opposition in the seminar because Comics are generally mostly images, whereas Novels are almost completely made up of words. But even then there are Graphic Novels which blur the line between comics and novels.(Watchmen, 300 for example) this then led to talk about comic-to-movie conversions and did comics contain enough content.