#super nature

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What if the planet doesn't want to be governed. I loved this phrase. it's the title of this Substack piece written by author @jonathanrowson2021 he describes as 'musings on language as we flirt with the apocalypse'. It's an interesting read.

[monsterinthenextroom]

Friday Favourites: Super Nature

I haven’t been posting on a while for fear I would start ranting about the state of the world and the people in it – all assholes except me and thee and I’m not to sure about thee. Or me. However I want to get a move on with the next book of ‘toons and a weekly post will help. I will try to stick to that for now. I’ll post a ‘toon or two a week in its orginal format and then with whatever edits I…

Friday Favourites: Super Nature

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[djevilninja]

Super Nature - The Showstopper

*Salt ‘N Pepa’s first!

[veliseraptor]

super-nature replied to your post “genres of academic writing that consistently disappoint me: mythology...”

Disappoint you in what way?

several. >.<

for one thing, in many cases there’s still a little bit of snottiness around the subject of the analysis - or, if not that, then a sort of apologetics: “I know this isn’t really a subject worthy of academic study, but I’m writing it anyway.” (this is something that plagued a lot of early Tolkien writing, actually, which gives me some hope that it’ll fade as scholarship accumulates.) 

there’s also a lot of it, especially in comics, that remains focused on pedagogy: “how to teach comics in the classroom, how to talk about genre in an academic setting”, which is also just not what I want.

then there’s the tendency for a lot of the analysis to just be shallow - to be on a very basic level that doesn’t really dig down into thematics or narrative, but often just becomes a recitation of facts - again, comics scholarship does this a lot. many books I have picked up because they look like interesting explorations of subjects I find interesting (gender, mythology in superhero comics, etc.) only to find they’re basically just talking about continuity: “what has happened with x character over the years”. 

when it comes to mythology, a lot of it is either uncomfortably universalist, stuck in the joseph campbell model (which I have a huge bone to pick with), or based on outdated and sometimes racist anthropology. 

and yet I keep trying to read it. even though, I swear to god, I’ve read some better analysis on the internet - just without the citations.

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Friday Faves: Spider on the Fly

Friday Faves: Spider on the Fly

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