Farscape season 3

Have finished watching season 3

Farscape just keeps getting bigger

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Farscape is good. Lots of layers and stuff. Lots of themes and issues and all.

Only one season and the after that thing left to watch.


All except the first discs of season 4 are still wrapped. When it got cancelled I decided if I hadn't watched them all it wasn't actually over. So now I feel like I should slow down and ration whats left...

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My grand plan for ending up the right way round on the clock went splat. Six hours sleep plus 7 hours awake plus 8 hours asleep does not a proper day make.


See this is large part of why deadlines go woosh. Other people really do have more hours in the day.

*sulk*

:eyeroll:

bazillions of cultures

Cultural appropriation

big argue
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also, there is a big assumption of 'dominant' culture
sociology of media last week, postmodern say no big blobby dominant culture (er, in the diagram with circles and arrows, there was just arrows), because everyone makes their own from parts

pastiche, bricolage, taking bits from all over and remaking them

familiar?

typical postmodern texts = cultural appropriation?

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My *actual* point is, there are a bazillion different cultures.

Tiny, tiny subcultures with a couple dozen people in it, massive class differences, difference between US and UK, all kinds of differences.
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So while I get that there are power issues, history issues, all kinds of shallow reading / bad writing issues involved

I absolutely do not get people saying to stick with 'your own culture', because when you get right down to it each reader/writer is an individual within several different cultures, defined in lots of different ways, physical difference, history, experience, shared texts

and its amazing we ever communicate at all, there is so little overlap.

Might as well write about all kinds of people.
Specially if it means reading/learning about them first.

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I still have a problem with the whole 'culture' concept. My brain works more in units of one person. (To type a sweeping generalisation). Pouring them all in together and calling it 'a' culture makes no sense to me. I mean two people with all their big 'culture' categories the same can read a text in radically different ways, sometimes several ways at once. So what does 'a culture' mean anyway? Big collection of many differences, is what.


Meh. Shall post this even though I think I say it all wrong.