Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Losing My Wings: Interactive Gothic Fables of Development

 “Losing my wings” will be a media rich Scalar document that explores why humans don’t have wings from the perspective of literature, film, graphic novels, and the history of science. In doing so, it will urge the readers to dream the dream of flight as a biological capability, an elegy of change and passing, and a new way of conceiving of the relatedness of beings. In these stories, flight is not a metaphor of transcendence, or a fixed physiological capability; flight is a haunting that marks the simultaneous similarity and difference of organic beings and how they position themselves in the world.