I've got very old fandoms on my mind due to the recent popularity of the BBC series Sherlock and Merlin. I've seen a number of people say that they had never read the Doyle stories until after they saw the TV series, which was very striking to me (since I had first read them in the 70s as a middle school student). I'm having the same curiosity ( Read more... )

I'm working on an article about global pop culture and online fandoms, and one of the points I want to make is about the impossibility of producers controlling the distribution of their shows. I got started in anime fandom, in which fansubs long preceded official releases, and forced major changes in the American anime industry. I'm also aware that ( Read more... )

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1. Michel Foucault
Foucault has been a profound influence on my work. When I was working on my dissertation, his books Discipline and Punish and Madness and Civilization were incredibly useful as important studies of the effect of the interrelationship between the human sciences and methods of organizing power over people. These days "What is an ( Read more... )