3/ James C. Scott has written about local knowledge and about top-down legibility and trasparency. Local knowledge / metis is always messy, nuanced, and detailed. Top-down knowledge / techne is clean and less detailed.
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4/ Metis is the knowledge of the people who live in a neighborhood, or who work in an industry. Technew is the knowledge of the people who want to RULE the neighborhood or the industry.
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5/ People who live in a neighborhood know the 20 different corners, and how they're each unique. People who want to rule the neighborhood assert that all of the corners are identical, all part of one neighborhood - wait, no, one TOWN.
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6/ A statement that every corner is the same, that every side of pig is the same, every school teacher is equally certified and qualified, etc. is a statement from a distant person who wants to move pieces around a chess board, and who doesn't want to worry that pawn a2 != d2
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7/ I've "lived in" the neighborhood of science fiction since I was 7, so 42 years. I know the neighborhoods pretty well. Mead is better in sword-and-planet, drugs are better in New Wave, physics are better in Hard.
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8/ They're all good. But they're not all the same. And there isn't one top level category or grouping. There are two. We've known this for a century or more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction …pic.twitter.com/hKIvqYQcOE
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9/ Rock on, sword-and-planet authors and fans. Rock on, pulp rev authors and fans. Rock on, hard SF authors and fans. All the genres and sub genres are good. ...but Fantasy isn't Science Fiction. Anyone who actually LIVES in this neighborhood could tell you that.
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10/ The top level category, if there is one, is "speculative". Almost no one uses that term, but it's there if you care to. One decent Venn diagram among many (via https://annieneugebauer.com/2014/03/24/what-is-speculative-fiction/ …). We can quibble about details, but it gestures in the right direction.pic.twitter.com/nK65LN2ufP
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Replying to @MorlockP
It's pretty close, but you need to take some paint of each color and go all Jackson Pollock on it to be accurate.
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Just because I'm feeling ornery: Gravity. SF or no?
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Replying to @MorlockP
Watch the trailer again and form an opinion from that. :)
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