Peter Güldenpfennig - Fandom, Fan Fiction and the Creative Mind (Masterthesis Human Aspects of Information Technology at Tilburg University)

''Because fan fiction uses and borrows existing elements which are already known to men, even the most creative creations are often being perceived as ‘not creative’ due to a lack of surprise.''

''By incorporating the knowledge deployed in reference to it, the archive augments itself, engrosses itself, it gains in auctoritas. But in the same stroke it loses the absolute and metatextual authority it might claim to have. One will never be able to objectivize it with no remainder. The archivist produces more archive, and that is why the archive is never closed. It opens out of the future. Archontic is the best term to work with because by using it you assume fan fiction is an entry into archives. By describing fan fictions as archives you get rid of the negative connotations and you can perceive the fan fictions as entries to open archives with its original artefact as basis.''