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Unclassified Noodling
Jun. 2nd, 2009 11:32 pmThree words:
fandom: marine_biology. There is no actual marine biology in this post. I tell you this now.
I'm beginning to wonder if fandom as a concept doesn't just function as some sort of meta-structure overlay on my hardwired sex is everywhere filter. I also wonder--scratch that, I just reread that last sentence and I know for sure--if I have been watching too much GitS. :D
If that's even possible anyway.
Seriously, though. Is marine biology a fandom? Is the fact that my jade plant and a spool of thread are totally doin' it right now a fandom? I feel a little like Magritte, when he was feeling all theoretical and made bad, dull paintings with a solid black block in the place of a cloud or something, helpfully labeled "cloud". What is fandom? Does being a fan of something make it a fandom? Does making derivative works of something cause a fandom to occur, and is fandom a thing or a state?
I suppose this is the question: how far can the idea of 'fandom' travel from the notion of derivative works from a specific creative source before it ceases to be fandom and becomes unclassified noodling? It seems that it is important to locate the line of demarcation, so that one may avoid making bad, dull painting-equivalents when one just wants to make goofy porn.
This post, for example: too much theory. Needs moar goofy porn.
fandom: marine_biology. There is no actual marine biology in this post. I tell you this now.
I'm beginning to wonder if fandom as a concept doesn't just function as some sort of meta-structure overlay on my hardwired sex is everywhere filter. I also wonder--scratch that, I just reread that last sentence and I know for sure--if I have been watching too much GitS. :D
If that's even possible anyway.
Seriously, though. Is marine biology a fandom? Is the fact that my jade plant and a spool of thread are totally doin' it right now a fandom? I feel a little like Magritte, when he was feeling all theoretical and made bad, dull paintings with a solid black block in the place of a cloud or something, helpfully labeled "cloud". What is fandom? Does being a fan of something make it a fandom? Does making derivative works of something cause a fandom to occur, and is fandom a thing or a state?
I suppose this is the question: how far can the idea of 'fandom' travel from the notion of derivative works from a specific creative source before it ceases to be fandom and becomes unclassified noodling? It seems that it is important to locate the line of demarcation, so that one may avoid making bad, dull painting-equivalents when one just wants to make goofy porn.
This post, for example: too much theory. Needs moar goofy porn.
