On Mon, 12 May 2014 20:49:45 -0700, Morgan Leigh <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Pitch,
> Musing on accidentally successful invocations.... So you are saying
> cosplay isn't real? A real what?
OK! Refining my closing quip about cosplay a little.
Broadly, I think that a useful distinction in talking about cultural
matters
does exist between folks acting out their own world views in all
seriousness
and folks portraying world views in an appreciative yet not so serious
manner.
Costume play--cosplay--probably belongs with the latter.
Let me add that I come at popular culture enthusiasms like cosplay as a
lifelong fan of plenty of it myself. It seems to me that much fandom relies
on tension between the willing suspension of disbelief and the intentional
extension of imaginative belief. Activities like cosplay allow fans to
depart
the realm of the mundane "real" and participate in the super "reality" of
the story universe. All the while remaining in the mundance
reality--thereby
giving us all those images of striking cosplayers on the balconies and in
the corridors of convention centers.
But cosplayers are not the characters that they portray.
That was the not so "real" circumstance that I had in mind. The difference
between a magic worker invoking Satan, for instance, and a fan portraying
a character who invokes Satan in a story universe. Or a current member
of the US Army and a Civil War re-enactor.
Newswise--It looks like various protests have led to the cancellation of
the Satanic
Mass event at Harvard.
Musing Magic & Fandom Have Have Blurred My Awareness Of Reality! Rose,
Pitch
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