This Hill person sounds exciting and reasonable (or exciting because reasonable). Haraway: not surprised; the Cyborg Manifesto strikes me as an instance of right place/ right time rather than as useful, considered thought-- and Americans who make their name as "Theory" academics in literature departments get positively encouraged to write midcareer books about everything-and-nothing. It's worse if they're cyber-theory-people too, since then they can play with the format of their books rather than having to edit the texts they write. (Now I sound like a cultural conservative-- does this mean I must go write gay porn?)
So did your attempt to convert me to XF fail (as against the striking success of BtVS) because BtVS is better written, or has more irony, or because XF isn't a coming-of-age story? I'd go with 1 and 3, but not 2; and note that being better-written is not the same thing as having more irony.
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Date: 2003-07-12 10:39 am (UTC)So did your attempt to convert me to XF fail (as against the striking success of BtVS) because BtVS is better written, or has more irony, or because XF isn't a coming-of-age story? I'd go with 1 and 3, but not 2; and note that being better-written is not the same thing as having more irony.