Category: Sociology
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his fixed nature as an organism may not prove adequate to stand the strain
I didn’t have “William James as comfort reading for the mid-2020s” on my bingo card, but maybe I should have?
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womanthology
On gender representation and generational enantiodromia in genre fiction anthologies.
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if none of your needs or desires are app-shaped
This post contains a sentence which, if it could be spoken aloud in sincerity, might free you from a nagging worry that you never knew you had.
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the cozy catastrophists of cosplay doomerism
I don’t know if Brennan’s use of the “cozy catastrophe” label comes with an awareness of its origins, but it may be more fitting than they seem to realise.
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we (believe that we) have always lived in the castle
I’ve noticed for some years now a discursive tic in what little fannish media I still consume, in which reviewers rehearse a catechism along the lines of “minority representation in genre literature, both at the level of characters and the level of authors, has always been and still is terrible”. To which my response is…