Vincent Gonzalez
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Mmmm... Tastes official
Christopher wrote: "But now, here’s Chef Jayson, and because his version of Butterbeer is sold at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, suddenly, it-is- what Butterbeer tastes like. It’s the "official" taste of Butterbeer." While I agre ... -
Ontologizing the superfan
I like your idea of the superfan. Of course, the superiority of the superfan, whether a human individual like Chef Jayson or a more complex organism like Jelly Belly, is finally maintained by legal action silencing fan creativity. Because this potential v ... -
Meaning, Honesty
While I agree that there is a real bravery in Rowling's willingness to present the death of minor characters, and that this is a bold move given the state of contemporary children's literature, we should be cautious not to overstate her achievem ... -
Re: Harry Potter and the Satanic Specters: The Franchise as Seen Through its Religious Metaliterature
One case of contested religious use
Well, as far as I know the only legal challenge to religious remediations of the Potter franchise was the attempt in 2007 to prevent the erection of a giant Hogwart's complete with the Express and statues of Harry and friends as part of a festival fo ... -
Re: Harry Potter and the Satanic Specters: The Franchise as Seen Through its Religious Metaliterature
The Ordinary Practices of Outlandish Creatures
Absolutely. I wonder if we should even persist in using the phrase "fan practices." Or maybe we should use it to describe licensed efforts as well. As came up in the butterbeer discussion running parallel to this one, the value of the licensed r ... -
Delicious!
Thanks for bringing these edible transmediations to our attention. This is especially interesting to me as a case where the tools available for licensed and unlicensed creativity, though still quite different, are equally likely to produce a compelling co ... -
Waves
You are absolutely right, this literature is didactic, but we miss a great deal if we assume that its incredibly vast public is learning a consistent set of messages from it. Between Tom Morris' reading that discovers how to be a great CEO and Luke B ... -
What Would Dumbledore Do?
As it turns out, the Harry Potter Alliance is being discussed on NPR this morning [http://thehpalliance.org/]. Here is a bit from their "About" page: "The commitment of our members combined with our innovative strategy for social change h ... -
"Indian" as a trans-national brand
That Turner International would prefer "Indian" to "Hindu" heritage definitely accords with its usual practices, but it is strange that even this has not been problematic for Turner. Given Ted's public critique of nationalist bias ... -
Everything is Particular
This is fascinating. The particularity of universalism also evokes how particularity is frequently deployed in moves toward certain types of universalism. Remember Bush's demand in 2008 that we "reject this 'dictatorship of relativism,' ...