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[razistoricharka]

Thinking about this song a lot because it implies Tito is like an enlightened monk praying to falcons to lend their power. But it also exalts socialist virtues at the end. And it's a rock cover.

[fiercestpurpose]

Apocalypse is about —

No, scratch that. No genre is ever about any one thing in particular, not when it’s a broad and varied genre made by many people with many different thematic concerns.

The thing that is most resonant and most meaningful in apocalyptic fiction to me in particular is the revelation of the world as constructed somewhat arbitrarily. Like a lot of the things we treat as important are rendered utterly meaningless in apocalyptic scenarios. All the systems and bureaucracies and constructs that make up our life fall away and in so doing are revealed as the absurdities that they are.

To be clear this is not a “the apocalypse purifies” reading or a “only real men survive the apocalypse” one. I’m saying that apocalypse works much like many other science fiction scenarios, in that it presents a strange world so that the reader can reflect back on the world around them. The post apocalyptic world is the same as the alien world, a place where many of the things taken for granted are no longer true and the characters and readers are forced to reevaluate what actually matters.

The difference, for me, is that post-apocalyptic fiction doesn’t just say, “The world doesn’t have to follow these arbitrary rules.” It says, “The world that followed these arbitrary rules is gone. All of that has been completely destroyed.” The characters in apocalyptic fiction have to grapple with this themselves. Instead of a mere comparison, it’s a comparison accompanied by a pervasive sense of loss.

The ghosts of the past are all around you, present in the physical structures of the old world, representing an organization that you thought was how the world worked. Now you know that all along, your entire society was fragile and able to be destroyed, that the iron-clad laws you lived by were simply made up by the force of collective societal belief. And you have to figure out how to live in the aftermath of the loss of that belief.

[mako-neexu]

i still cant BELIEVE he used to SMILE likE that IM NOT NORMAL OVER THEM

[publicatiosui]

"Anything is possible in a fairy tale, because a fairy tale is manifestly impossible."

-- Darko Suvin, "On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre

[noobrandusa]

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[astriiformes]

hi! Sorry to bother--I am also graduating soon and I'm scouring my university library--I LOVED the list you made, do you have any other recommendations you wouldn't mind sharing? frankly you could throw a works cited page at me and I'd be happy

I've certainly got more papers I could recommend, though I can't claim they're all directly monster-related. My actual academic field is the history of science, with an emphasis on the early modern period and early print culture -- I just try to tie it to my other special interests however I can!

If you're interested in monster theory, I definitely recommend various readings on witchcraft and the occult as well -- there are significant links between the early modern witch trials/folkloric beliefs about witchcraft and some of our "modern" monsters like werewolves. Try:

Wolves, Witches, and Werewolves: Witchcraft and Lycanthropy from 1423 to 1700 by Jane P. Davidson and Bob Canino

The Saturnine History of Jews and Witches by Yvonne Owens

From Sorcery to Witchcraft: Clerical Conceptions of Magic in the Later Middle Ages by Michael D. Bailey

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages by Stephen A. Mitchell

The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic by Richard Kieckhefer (who has written a LOT on magic and witchcraft in general)

Male Witches in Early Modern Europe by Laura Apps and Andrew Gow

If you're interested in monster studies from more of a sci-fi/fantasy angle and like reading about speculative fiction, consider:

On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre by Darko Suvin (really anything by Darko Suvin is a solid bet, he's a hugely influential scholar in the study of science fiction)

The journal Science Fiction Studies which has a lot of great articles and special issues (including a great one on Frankenstein!)

Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction by John Rieder

For a grab-bag of odd and unconventional papers and books I've found interesting recently, have a look at:

The Soul, Evil Spirits, and the Undead: Vampires, Death, and Burial in Jewish Folklore and Law by Saul Epstein and Sara Libby Robinson

Melancholy as a Disease: Learning About Depression as a Disease from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy by Jennifer Radden

A Case for a Trans Studies Turn in Victorian Studies: “Female Husbands” of the Nineteenth Century by Lisa Hager

Battling Demons With Medical Authority: Werewolves, Physicians, and Rationalization by Nadine Metzger

And, last but not least, I've only skimmed these last few, but as I'm currently on a huge Dracula research kick, here's a couple articles that have caught my eye:

Rethinking the New Woman in Dracula by Jordan Kistler (this one was especially refreshing to see, given the fact that many academic takes on the subject are.... bad)

Masculine Spatial Embodiment in Dracula by Julie Smith

Information in the 1890s: Technological, Journalistic, Imperial, Occult by Richard Menke

A ‘Ghastly Operation’: Transfusing Blood, Science and the Supernatural in Vampire Texts by Aspasia Stephanou

[halljavalge]

Source: Maria Rant photo

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ - suvine aas. Summer meadow.

[butchhamlet]

ghost of queen cleopatra vii philopater standing over my shoulder watching me write this thesis and she's thinking "why wasn't my antony a lesbian and who the hell is darko suvin"

[aissia-resitali]

Günümün 90% ni keçirdiyim kompyuterdə, telefonumun ekranınıda, qulaqcığımıda, airportumuda, Ən sevdiyim qelemimide..... hamısını əsəbimə qurban vermişəm..... artıq uzun muddetdi kompyüter istifade etmirem... telefonum eyni veziyyet qulaqcığım ise şkafda suviner olaraq qalır....ne üçün?.... insanlar üçün...əsəbi olduğum vaxtlar en çox deyer verdiyim eşyalarımı qırmışam, verdiyim deyere qram deymeyen insanlar üçün....

[familyabolisher]

Science fiction is "a web of resemblances" that can be traced backward from Gernsback's baptism of the genre along a variety of paths, and that can be extended in an unpredictable number of new and different ways. Its fluid boundaries have been defended and contested in many ways for many reasons, but the existence of the category as a condition of literary and cultural production and reception is incontrovertible. Approaching science fiction as a web of resemblances, rather than a set of defining characteristics, puts the questions of inclusion and exclusion that have preoccupied definers of the genre from Gernsback to Darko Suvin into their proper place. When Gernsback, in the first issue of Amazing, reprints stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and H. G. Wells alongside reprints of more recent pieces by G. Peyton Wertenbaker, George Allan England, and Austin Hall, and then declares Poe "the father of scientifiction" in his opening editorial, the question to ask does not concern the common defining characteristics of the six stories or their relation to Poe as source and font of science fiction, but rather it concerns the motives for Gernsback's construction of this group identity and its genealogy. The question about motives applies equally to Suvin's construction of a tradition of the "literature of cognitive estrangement" in Metamorphoses of Science Fiction that reaches back to Lucian and includes Percy B. Shelley and William Blake. To use the terminology and analysis mapped out in Pierre Bourdieu's "The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed," both constructions of science fiction's identity attempt to capture and defend economic or cultural capital by staking out and laying claim to certain positions in the field of literary production. The difference between Gernsback's construction of a generic tradition and Suvin's has to do with their historically and culturally different positions and projects—most obviously, between Gernsback's attempt to establish conditions of profitability for his magazine venture by establishing a set of predictable and attractive expectations for the potential buyers of future issues, and Suvin's attempt to give the study of science fiction academic respectability by including canonical Romantic poets and excluding "sub-literary" texts like those by Wertenbaker, England, or Hall.

Any literary text can be read as a similar kind of project. Citation, imitation, allusion, and so on inevitably perform some kind of position taking (Bourdieu, "Field" 312), so that the pressures of the market, the dynamics of prestige, and the construction of genealogies are intrinsic features of the web of resemblances that constitutes a genre. Genres are best understood by way of the practices that produce these resemblances and the motives that drive those practices. Pigeon-holing texts as members or nonmembers of this or that genre is intellectually frivolous, whatever consequences it might have in terms of market value or prestige. This is doubly true because, first, genre itself is an intertextual phenomenon, always formed out of resemblances or oppositions among texts, and second, no individual text is generically pure. Every text produces within itself a set of generic values in tension with and interacting upon one another.

John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

[dewyrka]

Thank you so much for the 300 followers.

i'm extremely happy to see that all of you like my moodboards. i'm grateful to have you all on this journey. thanks for the support 🌼💘✨

a kiss to my friend @haewrin thanks!!! 😚

kinda sad that I will stay without posting moodboard until tumblr update, i can not put the app back as before so i have no alternative but to wait.

i hope you stay with me until my comeback. 💖

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(+ many more) MUITO OBRIGADO A TODOS!!! 🐦

all my moodboards

reblog @warumiu ☆ divider by @v6que

thank you 200 followers (you should follow them to)

[iridescent-incubus]

Do you keep suvineers from meals, like article's of clothing or other personal effects

Eh, I might hold onto something that catches my interest but I'm pretty careless when it comes to keeping them. Mostly I just like being reminded about how I digested someone alive and turned them into a huge, steaming shit 😏🤭

[finitevariety]

The Me(tom)orphosis

As Tom Wambsgans awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a giant insect. His back hurt every day this side of 35, but that moment he found it so stiff as to be armor-plated. 

He lifted his head to see his paunch recast. Where once was a floured and hairy dough lay a brown-ribbed dome. 

“What the fuck,” he said, reaching an arm toward it. He saw instead a thin and helpless branch from which sprang serrated plucks of flesh. He recoiled; every movement jangled up a body that was now alien to him. 

It was no dream. His room, an incredible bedroom, an island of Suvin cotton sheets becalmed in the serenity of wealth, lay quiet between four familiar walls. Above the table on which his watch and phone lay—Tom was too important to read anything other than his emails before setting his head to rest—hung his favorite picture from his wedding. Shiv had vetoed his suggestion of covering the wall in the open-plan with one such picture, but had allowed this private compromise. 

Tom’s eyes turned next to the window, and the steely sky—raindrops pummeled the floor-to-ceiling glass like inept burglars—made him suddenly rather sad. What about sleeping a little longer and forgetting all this bullshit, he thought, but it was impossible. The gray sky had an odd and inescapable brightness. The darkness of the clouds threw into sharper relief the sun that clung to their edges, like fingertips whitened by a grasp at departing shoulders. He was, no doubt, already late for work.

[spaceintruderdetector]

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate, as well as inspiring myriad intellectual descendants and disciples. Suvin’s centuries-spanning history of the genre links SF to a long tradition of utopian and satirical literatures crying out for a better world than this one, showing how SF and the imagination of utopia are now forever intertwined.

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[razistoricharka]

would you happen to have any resources on the actual reality of yugoslavia? both on a state level and on an everyday life and culture level. I'm bosnian but grew up as an immigrant, and I barely know anything abt yugoslavia before the fall :// hvala<33

Darko Suvin's Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities, a great primer on everything you need to know about the state politically, economically and socially from the liberation war to the collapse. Very well-narrated and accessible for western and diaspora readers.

Some publications have decent articles on various subjects regarding Yugoslav history, this one from Mašina is a must read.

If you're a theoryhead, pick up anything by Edvard Kardelj or Boris Kidrič for the economic theory, avoid Đilas and Parenti.

Canonical literature and film is great for familiarizing yourself with the culture, my favorite movie to recommend would be Tito i Ja, as far as one's concerned with everyday life go.

Bracing myself and shuddering. If you like youtube video essays, yugopnik and balkan odyssey make good ones on the topic, even though I have particular disagreements with the latter.

Srećno, SF/SN

[goosemixtapes]

max's september 2024 reads

fiction

started The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey

Selected Plays by Alice Childress (review)

Ought From Is by B. Pladek ("God's absence, like autumn's, like my brother's, was mourned by no one.")

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn (review)

Andromache and the Dragon by B. Pladek (the dragon consumes desires. andromache has very few.)

Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés (review)

I Have Loved Strangers by Anne Washburn

Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt (review)

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (review)

White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King (review)

nonfiction

Aristotle's Poetics (review)

bits and pieces of Shakespeare and Science Fiction by Sarah Annes Brown

Etched Into The Sticky Pages of Playboy, We Find Our Sexual Politic by Charlie Squire (an examination of playboy, libertarianism, and choice feminism, among other things; this is soooo fascinating)

Estrangement and Cognition by Darko Suvin (on science fiction and estrangement. this is a classic but sometimes i wish mr. suvin knew fewer words)

started a reread of Educated by Tara Westover

other

the latter half of The Righteous Gemstones season 1

i've been getting really into earlyish paramore