Links roundup for 5 August 2012

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Here's a roundup of academic takes on fandom remixes that might be of interest to fans

• At the digital industry conference NEXTBerlin, presenter James Bridle utilized fan fiction in his talk "Metaphors Considered Harmful." The piece was about the development and changes in stories over time and across storytellers: "Every time we retell the same stories we are also acting on them, we are changing them in some fundamental way." He included a segment on Fifty Shades of Grey's evolution from Twilight fanfic, saying "There's a lot of anger about it from professional writers and publishers because they don't like fanfiction, they think that that's somehow a lower form of writing. But they're idiots because Borges wrote fanfiction as well." After explaining how Borges rewrote Lovecraft who rewrote Poe, he said "All of these stories are layered one on top of the other."
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Links roundup for 5 August 2012

[otw-staff.livejournal.com]

Here's a roundup of academic takes on fandom remixes that might be of interest to fans

• At the digital industry conference NEXTBerlin, presenter James Bridle utilized fan fiction in his talk "Metaphors Considered Harmful." The piece was about the development and changes in stories over time and across storytellers: "Every time we retell the same stories we are also acting on them, we are changing them in some fundamental way." He included a segment on Fifty Shades of Grey's evolution from Twilight fanfic, saying "There's a lot of anger about it from professional writers and publishers because they don't like fanfiction, they think that that's somehow a lower form of writing. But they're idiots because Borges wrote fanfiction as well." After explaining how Borges rewrote Lovecraft who rewrote Poe, he said "All of these stories are layered one on top of the other."
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