{"id":39056,"date":"2010-07-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/avatar-vous-avez-dit-avatar\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:23:03","slug":"avatar-vous-avez-dit-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/avatar-vous-avez-dit-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you say \u201cAvatar\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'><p>Writing in the columns of Futuribles in 1996, Chantal Lebrun analysed the growing confusion between the real and the virtual. She noted then that the virtual was gradually entering our everyday \u201cworlds\u201d and that the frontier with reality was already coming to be blurred.<br \/>\nAlmost 15 years on, this question is, she writes, more topical than ever, as is revealed by the latest film from American director James Cameron, \u201cAvatar\u201d. This 3-D animation takes place in the year 2154 on the planet Pandora, which is overflowing with natural resources. The native population, the Na\u2019vis, live in symbiosis with the environment, but are threatened by the humans who are trying to mine a mineral deposit situated beneath their \u2018tree home\u2019. In order to make contact with the Na\u2019vis and convince them to leave, the Earthlings develop half-human, half-Na\u2019vis creatures remote-controlled by humans. The film\u2019s hero, Jake Sully, a paraplegic marine, takes over one of these bodies and ends up identifying with the Na\u2019vis.<br \/>\nIn the adventures this character goes through and the choices he has to make, the question that is raised, says Lebrun, is that of change of identity. And, she asks, doesn\u2019t the struggle described in Avatar between an expiring \u201cold\u201d world and an unreal, idealized one symbolize the identity choice that humanity will have to make sooner or later?<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the columns of Futuribles in 1996, Chantal Lebrun analysed the growing confusion between the real and the virtual. She noted then that the virtual was gradually entering our everyday \u201cworlds\u201d and that the frontier with reality was already coming to be blurred. Almost 15 years on, this question is, she writes, more topical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/avatar-vous-avez-dit-avatar\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1324],"tags":[212],"keyword":[1112,1181,1182],"class_list":["post-39056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-revue-futuribles","tag-societe-en","keyword-cinema-en","keyword-multimedia-en","keyword-virtuel-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51599,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39056\/revisions\/51599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39056"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=39056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}