I have never liked definitions of slash. I have always felt excluded by them. But this is not surprising, since I've always had trouble with definitions. Now that I've learned Wittgensteins's concept of "cluster-concept", I realise why I couldn't accept the classical definitions ( Read more... )

I've just read these words by Flusser ( Read more... )

The polyphonic novel is defined by Bakhtin as the one in which the character's voice is never ultimately submerged by that of the narrator. Bakhtin describes Dostoevsky's novels as “A plurality of independent and unmerged voices and consciousnesses, a genuine polyphony of fully valid voices ( Read more... )

On news, Mr Berkowitz acknowledges, once again, that LJ screwed up. He says also that We have gone through another review of the journals that were suspended last week, and we have restored a few more of them. We will continue to work with people who feel they have been suspended in error, which is great. I can see that, from the journals and ( Read more... )

This interesting poll on bethbethbeth's LJ showed me that there are many different definitions of "being in fandon" and "being mono-fannish or multi-fannish".

For me, being in fandom has to do with actively searching for fanfiction. That's why I say I entered fandom about 4 years ago. I had read fanfiction before that: my friend morgan_d used to show me her (and tekalynn's) ( Read more... )

It's too easy to laugh at a fan who seems to have lost the ability to differenciate between reality and fiction, but... aren't we all fans of fictional characters? Aren't we all more or less guilty of blurring the line that separates these two worlds ( Read more... )

ethrosdemon posted on the sense of community in fandom, here. It's a very interesting post, and a very interesting discussion. I count myself among those who expected fandom to behave as a community, but frankly, now I'm losing my hopes. I'm disabling comments here because I'm writing a very complicated "Spice" story, yay!, and also because I think it's best ( Read more... )

or, at least, it shouldn't be! So I don't understand why I read statements -- in many different contexts -- that seem to imply that it is so. I know most RL jobs suck, and maybe that's why people have this notion that if you have to work on something, it can't be fun ( Read more... )

More meta analogies between Translation and Fanfiction (don't worry: my test is tomorrow - soon I'll stop pestering you with meta ( Read more... )

It's good to make metafandom, because you get in touch with intelligent people from other fandoms ;-). That's how I *discovered* this wonderful essay by nakeisha,

The Two Sides of Canon