>>5513661When reading fantasy and in fact any literature in general, a clever thing to remember from Althusser is the theory of social reproduction.
Basically, the nature of any social formation requires that it constantly and continuously reproduces itself, or as Althusser calls it: The ultimate condition of production is the reproduction of the conditions of production.
What this looks like is when authors just endlessly import their modern self-centric social conventions and perspectives onto their fantasy setting. So when you watch Critical Role and they visit a 'fantasy hotel' and take 'fantasy vacation' ??? or attend a fantasy comic convention, when you read Harry Potter and it is exactly like a British boarding school lol, and yes in old Star Trek when the black woman answers the space telephone, all of this sends marxists into paroxysms of academic fervour.
This is why you need to inject WAR ELEPHANTS into your setting, import utterly bizarre exotic phantasmagorical ethnographic embellishments. Quidditch should end with dismemberment and ritual heart sacrifice like those nude Mesoamerican captive ball games at Tenochtitlan or Chichen Itza
