Right here waiting for you/nonfiction
So the CW wants you to share your SPN fan art:
Have you been waiting to use some of your Supernatural fan art? Here’s your chance!
You create it, design it and we’ll use it! Submit it here: http://blog.cwtv.com/submit
As I said on tumblr, I think one notable thing here is that there are very few fanartists who’ve been “waiting to use” their fan art. Some, undoubtedly. But most of it? Already in use! I am fascinated by how many assumptions about fan v. pro are so baked into the official discourse; I can’t imagine anyone responsible even noticed the wording. (Also of course, yes, I smirked at the “submit” joke; I bet they did too.)
Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation: Pollan writes eloquently about cooking with fire (barbeque), water (braises, sofrito, etc.), air (baking bread), and earth (fermentation), arguing that there’s a benefit to despecializing in our cooking instead of letting corporations cook for us. He was most convincing on the “water” section, I thought, because baking bread sounds like a pain and I have no desire to make my own kimchee. There are a lot of discussions of the psychological role of cooking, and how others have thought of it, with a reasonable amount of attention paid to gender and an occasional nod at race, with an apparent detachment from those issues consistent with Pollan’s identity as a white man. Cooking is deeply psychological and fulfilling in this book, but only here as an indicator of one’s relationship with the physical world or occasionally one’s desire to build community-“power” doesn’t really come into his account.
Naomi Oreskes & Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming: You knew that there was a concerted, well-funded campaign to convince people that “99 scientists agree, 1 doesn’t” justified reporting issues as controversial, right? This is a book-length exegesis of the past sixty years of such campaigns. The thing that I didn’t know-a lot of the time it was the same guys behind the media blitz defending cigarettes, SDI (Star Wars), acid rain, carbon emissions. The exact same men, with the exact same expertise (a lot of physicists, very little actual field knowledge). It wasn’t just that they developed and perfected the techniques, enough so that our kids are going to suffer for their sins-they themselves just transferred the techniques to new fields when the initial ones were decisively lost (cigarettes) or rendered irrelevant (Star Wars). If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention-but then journalists weren’t. It's useful information, but the repetition eventually just gets really depressing: the techniques that worked on cigarettes continue to work, as Rome burns.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.
Have you been waiting to use some of your Supernatural fan art? Here’s your chance!
You create it, design it and we’ll use it! Submit it here: http://blog.cwtv.com/submit
As I said on tumblr, I think one notable thing here is that there are very few fanartists who’ve been “waiting to use” their fan art. Some, undoubtedly. But most of it? Already in use! I am fascinated by how many assumptions about fan v. pro are so baked into the official discourse; I can’t imagine anyone responsible even noticed the wording. (Also of course, yes, I smirked at the “submit” joke; I bet they did too.)
Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation: Pollan writes eloquently about cooking with fire (barbeque), water (braises, sofrito, etc.), air (baking bread), and earth (fermentation), arguing that there’s a benefit to despecializing in our cooking instead of letting corporations cook for us. He was most convincing on the “water” section, I thought, because baking bread sounds like a pain and I have no desire to make my own kimchee. There are a lot of discussions of the psychological role of cooking, and how others have thought of it, with a reasonable amount of attention paid to gender and an occasional nod at race, with an apparent detachment from those issues consistent with Pollan’s identity as a white man. Cooking is deeply psychological and fulfilling in this book, but only here as an indicator of one’s relationship with the physical world or occasionally one’s desire to build community-“power” doesn’t really come into his account.
Naomi Oreskes & Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming: You knew that there was a concerted, well-funded campaign to convince people that “99 scientists agree, 1 doesn’t” justified reporting issues as controversial, right? This is a book-length exegesis of the past sixty years of such campaigns. The thing that I didn’t know-a lot of the time it was the same guys behind the media blitz defending cigarettes, SDI (Star Wars), acid rain, carbon emissions. The exact same men, with the exact same expertise (a lot of physicists, very little actual field knowledge). It wasn’t just that they developed and perfected the techniques, enough so that our kids are going to suffer for their sins-they themselves just transferred the techniques to new fields when the initial ones were decisively lost (cigarettes) or rendered irrelevant (Star Wars). If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention-but then journalists weren’t. It's useful information, but the repetition eventually just gets really depressing: the techniques that worked on cigarettes continue to work, as Rome burns.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.