Action is solely the property of the public. But through performance, action becomes an issue of identity. Identity is something that is constructed as a reflection back from the other. It not only has individual and social aspects, but is fundamentally the result of bodies- individual, private bodies set in relations to public bodies, institutions and discourses. This becomes explicitly so in terms of fan culture.
Identity influences both private bodies and public texts.
The two are so interrelated that trying to make a clear, stable distinction becomes dizzying. From the perspective of dominant tastes, fans appear to be frighteningly out of control, undisciplined and repentant, rogue readers. Rejecting the aesthetic distance Bourdieu suggests is a cornerstone of bourgeois aesthetics, fans enthusiastically embrace favored texts and attempt to integrate media representations into their own social experience . Unimpressed by institutional authority and expertise, the fans assert their own right to form interpretations, to offer evaluations, and to construct cultural cannons. The connections to Scarry here should come as no surprise.