Richard Siken, SPN, Economic Lives
True fangirl confessions: I wrote Richard Siken a note about how much I liked Crush, and how I saw lots of continuities between his poetry, SPN, and the Mountain Goats in their treatment of masculinity/violence/drinking/desire/road trips/that general constellation of Americana. He wrote back noting that Crush predated SPN (which I knew, truly!) but indicating that he knew of the SPN/Siken correspondences through the power of the internet. Heh.
SPN: I have only been waiting for this for four years! Other thoughts: I wish we'd gotten more out of Sam than "yeah, don't talk about it" when Dean tried to do the I'm-about-to-die speech; I hope he still gets to be angry at Demon!Dean. As someone said on Tumblr, this means Dean can now be summoned! Though given the power of a Knight of Hell, a summoner had best be sure they know what they're doing. I loved that Crowley figured out that when Dean doesn't eat there's something very wrong with him--Dean's appetites (the mostly good ones, sex and food and affection) have always been his human credentials.
Viviana Zelizer, Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy: Collection of Zelizer’s writings on economic sociology, with introductory essays. Zelizer’s work on how life insurance came to be seen as acceptable and even loving, instead of impermissibly mingling sacred life with profane money, was the beginning of her career analyzing the many ways in which money can interact with love and other relationships. She criticizes “separate spheres/hostile worlds” accounts of money and care that claim that the intrusion of one into the other’s area is inherently corrupting. But she also criticizes “nothing-but” accounts that attempt to reduce everything to economics, or to politics, or to culture. Instead, there are multiple and complex negotiations about just how money can acceptably be linked to caregiving: a sex worker is different from a fiance; “payers and recipients attach great importance to both the form and the meaning of the payment and even grow indignant if confusion among types of payment arises.” I find Zelizer’s work very important for theorizing fandom and how fandom is changing as we continue to negotiate the commercial/noncommercial interface. Kindle Worlds is a different kind of commercialization than a convention. Her discussion of “commercial circuits” is also helpful-for one thing it helps explain why Kindle Worlds is so different, since it replaces community with heirarchy. She defines commercial circuits as arrangements that persist over time and have boundaries with some control over transactions crossing those boundaries; a distinctive set of transfers of goods/services; transfers using distinctive media (by which she means some form of currency, though we actually use media, such as fandom gift exchanges, Big Bangs, kudos, etc.); and ties among participants that have shared meaning.
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SPN: I have only been waiting for this for four years! Other thoughts: I wish we'd gotten more out of Sam than "yeah, don't talk about it" when Dean tried to do the I'm-about-to-die speech; I hope he still gets to be angry at Demon!Dean. As someone said on Tumblr, this means Dean can now be summoned! Though given the power of a Knight of Hell, a summoner had best be sure they know what they're doing. I loved that Crowley figured out that when Dean doesn't eat there's something very wrong with him--Dean's appetites (the mostly good ones, sex and food and affection) have always been his human credentials.
Viviana Zelizer, Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy: Collection of Zelizer’s writings on economic sociology, with introductory essays. Zelizer’s work on how life insurance came to be seen as acceptable and even loving, instead of impermissibly mingling sacred life with profane money, was the beginning of her career analyzing the many ways in which money can interact with love and other relationships. She criticizes “separate spheres/hostile worlds” accounts of money and care that claim that the intrusion of one into the other’s area is inherently corrupting. But she also criticizes “nothing-but” accounts that attempt to reduce everything to economics, or to politics, or to culture. Instead, there are multiple and complex negotiations about just how money can acceptably be linked to caregiving: a sex worker is different from a fiance; “payers and recipients attach great importance to both the form and the meaning of the payment and even grow indignant if confusion among types of payment arises.” I find Zelizer’s work very important for theorizing fandom and how fandom is changing as we continue to negotiate the commercial/noncommercial interface. Kindle Worlds is a different kind of commercialization than a convention. Her discussion of “commercial circuits” is also helpful-for one thing it helps explain why Kindle Worlds is so different, since it replaces community with heirarchy. She defines commercial circuits as arrangements that persist over time and have boundaries with some control over transactions crossing those boundaries; a distinctive set of transfers of goods/services; transfers using distinctive media (by which she means some form of currency, though we actually use media, such as fandom gift exchanges, Big Bangs, kudos, etc.); and ties among participants that have shared meaning.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.