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The essay’s entry into Victor Stone’s Black cyborg positionality seeks to do four things: first, articulate, with the help of Richard Iton’s notion of the Black fantastic, the unsettling and destabilizing nature of Blackness and cyborgness; second, provide a gendered analysis of the Black (male) cyborg that, in part, questions the destabilizing potential of yet another male superhero; third, put Stone’s Blackness and cyborgness, which I alternatively describe as a transhumanness, in conversation with historical derogations and contemporary reappropriations of the notion of monstrosity; and four, highlight the salvific discourse surrounding Stone and speak to the temporal implications of being a Black cyborg.  \n“You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.”  \n—Marissa Meyer, Cress  \n“The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries, and the presence of impurities and so we need monsters and we need to recognize and celebrate our own monstrosities.”  \n—Judith Halberstam, Skin Shows  \nBirth of a Cyborg  \n1 The term cyborg is short for ‘cybernetic organism,’ and was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. Used today to describe a being that is part human and part machine, it was originally used to describe being technologically altered to better cope with the conditions of outer space. Moving away from the astronautic context, a cyborg is now symbolic of the ways in which “technology is transforming and maybe even transcending the human” (Muhr 339) . Cyborgs disrupt traditional categorical definitions of‘the human’; they, in a sense, unsettle homeostasis. The cyborg interrogates what qualifies as human, and to what end the human exists as human.  \n2 Conventional understandings of cyborgs, though, are complicated when, like DC comic book superhero Victor Stone, the cyborg is Black, understood here as extending beyond mere  \nepidermal hue. Victor Stone as Cyborg first appeared in the pages of a series called The New Teen Titans, back in 1980. A former Teen Titan and current Justice League member, Stone is a young African American born as a “human computer”(Sable et al. n.p.), his father used to say, with an IQ of 170. He was nearly killed in a laboratory explosion, only to have his life saved, and his body restored, through the use of advanced cybernetics. Stone being a Black cyborg is consequential: it modifies, disrupts, and complicates cyborg-ness, so to speak. In the context of contemporary policing and ontological invalidation of Black bodies via fatal police brutality—and Victor Stone himself being subject to gangs, drugs, and racism in Detroit—João Costa Vargas and Joy James say this about the Black cyborg:  \na black cyborg: a modified, improved human whose increased ethical, spiritual, and physical capabilities generate unusual strength, omniscience, and boundless love. In this narrative, the black cyborg is a “creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important social construction, a world-changing fiction.”…[T]he black cyborg is able to overcome the brutality of imposed limits—the conditions of social and physical death. (Vargas and James 18)  \nBlack cyborgs are superhuman insofar as that superhumanness rests on their Blackness. Contrary to discourses about Black inhumanity, pathological monstrosity, and subhumanity, the Black cyborg subverts those assumptions and exudes a more-than-human ethos. In this context, what Stone says about himself is even more telling: “There’s more to being a cyborg than artificial limbs and sonic disruptors”(Sable et al. n.p.)—namely, his ","cbCairkjP370pLyv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairkjP370pLyv","pdf",189429,18,"English","# Birth of a Cyborg\n## Origins and meaning of “cyborg”\n## Victor Stone as a Black cyborg","[{\"question\":\"What does the essay aim to accomplish with its analysis of Cyborg comics?\",\"answer\":\"It articulates how Blackness and cyborgness are unsettling and destabilizing, provides a gendered analysis of the Black (male) cyborg, connects Stone’s Black cyborgness to monstrosity, and highlights salvific discourse and its temporal implications.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is Victor Stone’s cyborg identity considered consequential in the essay?\",\"answer\":\"Because his Blackness modifies, disrupts, and complicates cyborg-ness, challenging assumptions about Black inhumanity, monstrosity, and subhumanity while framing him as superhuman through his Blackness.\"},{\"question\":\"What paradox does the essay discuss regarding Vic Stone’s condition?\",\"answer\":\"It presents Stone as both human and machine, where his cyborg machinery is described as a disability yet also enables superhuman abilities. 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