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Nele Noppe

hypothetically speaking - slash/gen: I would like to ship it - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • a story about queer dudes or ladies can never be defined by its plot or by a single-character story. Slash stories can never be gen.
  • This is why I am told that the gay children's book I gave my nephew "contains sexuality," but the dozens of children's books that he already has where mommy and daddy love each other do not contain sexuality.
  • I am so serious about this: het/gen, the slashing of het and gen, het and gen making out with each other, is a system that reinscribes heterosexuality as the norm and as normal, a system that excludes queer sexualities from representation, from general interest.
  • Nele Noppe on 27 Jul 09
     
    "a story about queer dudes or ladies can never be defined by its plot or by a single-character story. Slash stories can never be gen. "
Nele Noppe

sparkindarkness: More on the M/M genre (because I'm not above flogging a dead horse :P) - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 13 Jan 10 - Cached
  • A straight woman is using a male pseudonym to seem more authentic writing about gay men. Why is this not seen as wrong? Why is this not seen as a gross appropriation?
  • However - for a straight woman to summarise coming to terms with homophobia, your sexuality and the closet as “not having the balls to be happy.” Really, no. Seriously no. There is so much ignorant privilege there I can’t even begin to address it. Sorry if depiction of the reality of homophobia spoiled your Happily Ever After.
  • But not gay male experiences - but some of these authors feel free to claim they have and appropriate at will.
Nele Noppe

Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 14 Jan 10 - Cached
  • SPIEGEL: In your exhibition at the Louvre, you will also be showing works drawn from the visual arts, such as still lifes. But these paintings have frames, or limits, and they can't depict more than they happen to depict. Eco: On the contrary, the reason we love them so much is that we believe that we are able to see more in them. A person contemplating a painting feels a need to open the frame and see what things look like to the left and to the right of the painting. This sort of painting is truly like a list, a cutout of infinity.
  • SPIEGEL: But you also said that lists can establish order. So, do both order and anarchy apply? That would make the Internet, and the lists that the search engine Google creates, prefect for you. Eco: Yes, in the case of Google, both things do converge. Google makes a list, but the minute I look at my Google-generated list, it has already changed. These lists can be dangerous -- not for old people like me, who have acquired their knowledge in another way, but for young people, for whom Google is a tragedy. Schools ought to teach the high art of how to be discriminating.
  • Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes. Of course, nowadays I can find this kind of information on the Internet in no time. But, as I said, you never know with the Internet.
Nele Noppe

Calvin Trillin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Nele Noppe on 21 Apr 10
     
    Andrew McKevitt
  • Nele Noppe on 21 Apr 10
     
    On top of that, I think there's an ethnocentrism (for lack of a better word) at play here. Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants have recounted watching untranslated, unsubtitled, unedited anime on local-access Japanese community TV stations in LA from the early 1970s on, and their ability to access and understand this "foreign" cultural product could serve as an "in" with non-Japanese SF fan communities. It seems that Japanese in the United States are often written out of the stories of Japanese cultural transmission to this country. (I think it was Calvin Trilling who argued that, in fact, that's one reason why sushi is so appealing-- Americans don't identify it with physical Japanese bodies, like they do "lesser" cuisines such as Chinese and Mexican.) Just another example that might show that this process was more diffuse than Leonard or Fred Patten have represented.
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The right of making available - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 17 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The concept of open source, as with intellectual property generally, is based on the fact that my possession of a copy of a program doesn't interfere with your possession of a copy of the same program.
  • The general term for that is "nonrivalrous,"
  • Who is supposed to be doing the open sourcing here? For those of us who aren't Cylons, there aren't many copies. Bodies are rivalrous
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  • Open source is a great idea, but it's always important to ask who's supposed to be providing the free stuff. As I've said elsewhere, when you start to compare fields that get intellectual property protection (software, sculpture) with fields that don’t (fashion, cooking, sewing), it becomes uncomfortably obvious that our cultural policy has expected women’s endeavors to generate surplus creativity but has assumed that men’s endeavors require compensation,
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