Essays on Carrie: Part 3 “Harvesting the Celebrity Interface”

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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In part 3 of our series covering the anthology “Our Blessed Rebel Queen”, we look at Andrew Kemp-Wilcox’s essay, “Harvesting the Celebrity Interface: Carrie Fisher, Virtual Performance, and Software Stars”. The essay covers the topics of digital performance, online persona, the concept of the “software celebrity”, and consumerism. We continue analyzing our relationship to Princess Leia and Carrie Fisher: How we have been consumers of her image and persona and how we have projected ourselves onto her. We talk through these topics and our own ever-changing relationship with constructed images and celebrity. Buy the essay anthology (they’re back!): https://amzn.to/3JhQFgK https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers http://skytalkers.com http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod https://www.tiktok.com/@skytalkers http://facebook.com/skytalkerspod https://www.instagram.com/skytalkerspodcast http://www.twitter.com/crerrity http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher hello@skytalkers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:16.0	Hello, and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:19.0	Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin,
0:27.4	and welcome to this episode where we are continuing our sporadic series called Essays on Carrie.
0:31.6	This is part three, where we are going to be talking about the essay,
0:39.2	Harvesting the Celebrity Interface, Carrie Fisher, Virtual Performance and Software Stars by Andrew Kemp Wilcox,
0:43.5	which is featured in the anthology that we've been going through, our blessed rebel queen.
0:48.5	Very excited to be continuing this series. This has been one of my most favorite things we've ever done on the podcast. And hopefully you've listened to our other two episodes on
0:53.7	who owns Carrie Fisher and gatekeeping the past.
0:56.5	Two essays that sent me into like a personal spiral of like my own identity and my, the way that I perceive fandom and perceive Carrie Fisher and my past and everything.
1:09.6	Caitlin, too.
1:10.3	It's not just me.
1:11.0	It's been a really a fun way to approach these topics about fandom and participatory fandom
1:17.0	and participatory culture, which is something that we talk about in those other episodes,
1:21.4	which I'm sure we're probably going to be talking about in this one as well.
1:24.7	This essay is a little different than the others, and I'm really looking forward to
1:28.7	getting into it. But on the series, we are just continuously analyzing our relationship with
1:35.2	Carrie Fisher, our relationship with Princess Leia, and how we've been consumers of her image
1:40.3	and persona. It's been a really interesting journey. So thank you for listening and for
1:46.0	listening to the other ones. I know so many of you have purchased this book. I think we sold it out
1:50.1	on Amazon. So that was cool. And I really, I don't know, it's cool to always read these essays
1:57.6	on fandom. I actually purchased another book that was recommended by a friend
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