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[EDU] Journal of Transformative Works - Where scientists discuss Fanfiction
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Author: u/AmeteurOpinions Finally, everyone was working together.*
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URL: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/archive
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Score: 5
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Created: 2014-12-02T17:39:00
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u/None [+4] (3 hours later)
Yes, but do they consider crossover fanfiction?
Also, seriously? Where is Moses and the Methods of Rationality?
u/AmeteurOpinions [+5] Finally, everyone was working together. (3 hours later)
I believe so.
"Let my people go!"
"Never! Our economy will collapse without them."
"Ramses, I have an entire god on my side. Try putting that into your probability estimate."
u/None [+7] (6 hours later)
Moses stared at the piles of dead bodies of the innocent children.
"What the hell, God?"
"u wot m8 ur qwestionin me ill keep u out of the promised land m8"
u/AmeteurOpinions [+1] Finally, everyone was working together. (7 minutes later)
Considering that the majority of the content of this subreddit is fanfiction, I think it fitting to link to a place where the topic is taken as seriously as can be: an academic journal. Every article is available for free, and although many may not be personally relevant, they do make for fascinating reading.
Edit: This is one of my favorites. Look at the abstract!
Abstract—This essay examines three Japanese anime texts—Ghost in the Shell, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Serial Experiments: Lain—in order to discover metaphors for female fan practices online. In each of the three texts, women overthrow corporate, governmental, or paternal control over the body and gain the right to copy or reproduce it by fundamentally altering those bodies. These gestures are expressions of posthuman anxiety and "terminal identity." In addition, they involve confrontation with an uncanny double in some way. But how can they provide models for cyborg and fan subjectivity in an era in which bodily and textual reproduction, especially among females, is such a hotly contested issue? And how is the antifanfic backlash related to the phenomenon of the uncanny?
Obviously contains spoilers for those three animes.