Inclusion, as informed by critical theory and a historically-grounded #power and #politics lens, is important and yet often missing, in discourses on democracy in 21st century.

📍 Inclusion that is just, should be accompanied by unpacking of structures made invisible by historical and contemporary #hegemony and by #redistribution of power.

#UrsulaLeGuin #GloriaAnzaldua #intersectionality #intertextuality

Image: long form text on #criticaltheory and #inclusion

Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/athena-club/

I just noticed that one of my posts from November 2023 links "back" to a post from May 2025.

#Intertextuality, birch!

My undergrad university professors would be so proud of me right now! XD

P.S. Oh, duh. I just realized it's not actually linking into the future, but it just links to a tag page, which of course features the latest posts with that dag. Derp-de-doo! It would've been so clever if I had actually thought to go back and update a 2023 post with a link to a 2025 post, though. I'm just gonna pretend that's what happened, anyway. XD

The invention of the Marvel universe

From True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, by Josephine Riesman pg 55:

One more notable bit of career foreshadowing came in September 1941’s Marvel Mystery Comics #25, in which Stan penned a text story about various superheroes who were series regulars coming together for a confab. Although it wasn’t superhero fiction’s first crossover—that honor belonged to a Namor and Human Torch epic in issue #8, written by someone else—it was the first to suggest that everyone in Timely’s stable could occupy the same space. Twenty years later, when Stan established the endlessly interconnected Marvel Universe, he likely didn’t remember those two pages of prose, but perhaps they were the seed that grew into a framework that fundamentally changed popular fiction on both page and screen.

From pg 129:

What The Avengers demonstrated above all else was the degree to which Stan and Kirby were constructing a massive latticework of stories in which anything that happened in a given individual series—even ones from as far back as the forties—could affect events in any other series. Marvel was a living, breathing, evolving universe, through and through, which couldn’t be said for the haphazard worlds of DC, Charlton, or any of the rest of the superhero publishers. It was a brilliant strategy for next-level storytelling, yes, but an even more brilliant marketing ploy. If you wanted to know what the hell was going on in one book, you had to buy all the others, just to be sure you didn’t get lost. Kirby never took credit for that idea—indeed, his assistant and biographer, Mark Evanier, says Kirby found it cumbersome and irritating, because it forced him to incorporate other people’s ideas into his own comics. But Stan was enormously proud of the notion of the Marvel Universe and maintained it in all the superhero books

#comics #intertextuality #marvelUniverse

definitely some intriguing synchronicities between Bee Girls and Liquid Sky. This could be the next "Dark Side of the Rainbow"!

#monsterdon
#intertextuality

聖地巡礼に対して Genette の超テクスト性概念をを適用すると、存在論的には鷲宮神社が前テクストでありその派生として『らき☆すた』があることが我々に了解されながら、現象的には作品の一場面が前テクスト、現実の鷲宮神社の景色が後テクストであるという転倒が生じる。つまり、超テクスト性には現象的なものと存在論的なものの二者が存在する。聖地巡礼は虚構空間での体験の現実空間内での再現と言えるが、実際再現自体は情報空間と現実空間との間どころか情報空間同士でさえ起こりえるのであり、この意味で聖地巡礼のスーパーセットとしての再現概念を考えることができる。

#二次創作論 #intertextuality #otomad_theory

間テクスト性のモデル化に寄与する「共引用（co-citation）」と「書誌結合（bibliographic coupling）」は図書館情報学の術語であり、さらに行列で表現可能である。共引用行列 \( M \) は \( M = A^⊤ A \) ( \( m_{ij} = \sum_k a_{ki} a_{kj} \) ）、書誌結合行列は \( N \) は \( N = A A^⊤ \) ( \( n_{ij} = \sum_k a_{ik} a_{jk} \) ）と表される。この定義の綺麗さには感嘆せずにいられない。

#intertextuality #LIS