The Lancaster Report

[moon_brain]

4:30 am, nearly 16 hours after I presented my first paper in an academic setting. Here's the report, and the brain-sparks that followed me home.

Comments

[rattyfleef]

Because of course the only valid opinion is that of the OLD GUY.

[rattyfleef]

Oy. Sorry. It's 8 and I went down at 12:30 and got up at 6. Am a might cranky. But seriously. We don't need him. You don't need him

[rattyfleef]

Augh. Mite. Mite cranky. I'm getting off the internet now :C

[moon_brain]

You're absolutely right to call me out for fixating on his opinion when I 1) made contact with Anna, who's great, and 2) several other people came up to ask me about memes and stuff. I think it's just because when I get the word trivial thrown at me I want to throw something back.

And yes. We don't need Prof. Eagleton. Even if he won't support me today, i've lost nothing from yesterday.

I would agree about the attention thing, but there are lots of people who feel joy from just getting their stuff out there. People who post fic to a friendslocked journal, people who just troll like me, we must get our hit from the reciprocity of other people being into the same stuff as us.

[china_shop]

This is so interesting. I never think about currency in fandom, but I suspect it must be intrinsically linked with status (as is money, after all; perhaps that's a defining characteristic of currency?). Is there a link between excitement or attention and status? Are there different kinds of excitement/attention, some more currency-like than others? Um?

(I feel weird commenting on this, because I'm so far removed from academic thought and I've never done any post-grad stuff. But, y'know. *jumps in anyway* :-)

[moon_brain]

Hi china_shop

[niennah]

Hello! I friended you

[moon_brain]

HI Niennah