Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

-future supplements become inevitable,

At the same time, the performance, by revealing this lack, reveals also a potentially infinite series of future performances providing further supplementation"

To author a text is to have power over it, to take public responsibility for it, regardless of whether or not one did the actual work of selecting words and putting them in order. Authorship is a sign of control rather than creation.

Why does fan fiction seem to focus on bodies? (2) Why does fan fiction seem so repetitious? and (3) Why is fan fiction produced within the context of media fandom? What is the relationship between a fanfic writer and her audience?

fiction as a textual attempt to make certain characters "perform" according to different behavioral strips.

The existence of fan fiction postulates that characters are able to "walk" not only from one artwork into another, but from one genre into another;

narrowly focused on bodies and character at the expense of plot or idea.

one could define fan

stories get embodied that they seem to generate truly massive waves of fiction.