[Elizabeth] Freeman coins the word “chrononormativity” to describe “the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity,” which results in a sense of normal or regular time being implanted in individuals; she states that chrononormativity is “a
Fandom (and art) as sites of worthless knowledge
Instead, what if we embrace fandom and art practice as a site of “worthless knowledge” (Jenkins), which is when art and fanfiction stops operating under conditions of “immaterial labour” or as “a service” and becomes something else: let’s call it an
Alienation in filk
The bankrupt values and lack of imagination filkers recognize in media producers and literary hacks get mapped onto the larger social order through an evocation of a long-standing distinction between fan culture and the mundane world. This distinction is partially