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Trailer for Predators. Looks pretty great.
I’m an old fan of your book on superhero comics who chanced across this blog the other day. I’ve been finding myself thinking of the book's analysis of misprision a great deal recently—not just as applied to comics, but across all sorts of genre fiction—and I was wondering if perhaps you’d extended it in some subsequent work. It seems applicable to an incredible array of sprawling fictional universes that are, at this point the work of dozens or hundreds or thousands of individual authors across multiple generations: Star Trek/Wars/Etc, the Lovecraft mythos, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Warcraft and its multiplayer progeny, etc.
We’re also seemingly moving to a more dispersed, collaborative, and generally wikiesque model of cultural creation, within but also between and independently of those existing universes. There’s been plenty of smart stuff written about the formal features of commons-based peer-production models generally—Benkler and Lessig and whatnot—but not (as far as I know) so much on the internal dynamics of extended, massively multiplayer narrative production where the “commons” is a shared fictional universe. Misprision seems likely to play an even greater role in that emerging context, and it would be interesting to see it deployed there. Anything in the works?
I wish there was, but a lot of that material is out of my wheelhouse, and with a demanding full time job I can't see having the time to learn it. I had hoped that other people, inspired by my take on comics, would use the approach in their own works (crediting me for the inspiration of course!) but I didn't really happen -- my book does not even get quoted in books on comics, usually. I will make you a deal -- YOU write the book you want to see and I will totally endorse it with a back jacket blurb and everything!
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