*nods* That's been my explicit framework for years--that the Gael Baudinos of the world can write their current-or-past-realistic explorations as they like, but that isn't what I want to read. So I write what I do want to read, which is more the kind of world I'd /like/ to live in.
The critique I actually lend credence to sometimes is the one about how constructing a world in which bias X doesn't exist can make it easier for an author to stop thinking about bias in general, which can show up in some pretty unpleasant ways. But given how universally not-thinking-about-bias shows up, in all generes and approaches, I am unconvinced that the "no bias X" part is directly causative, by itself, of any "only my experience exists" part. Or, for that matter, that an inclination to excising bias X is indicative of a tendency to "only my experience". So I tend to throw that into the "any author has to stay aware of potential erasures, duh" bin.
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Date: 25 Oct 2010 05:24 pm (UTC)The critique I actually lend credence to sometimes is the one about how constructing a world in which bias X doesn't exist can make it easier for an author to stop thinking about bias in general, which can show up in some pretty unpleasant ways. But given how universally not-thinking-about-bias shows up, in all generes and approaches, I am unconvinced that the "no bias X" part is directly causative, by itself, of any "only my experience exists" part. Or, for that matter, that an inclination to excising bias X is indicative of a tendency to "only my experience". So I tend to throw that into the "any author has to stay aware of potential erasures, duh" bin.