Very Pynchon and It's About Us! (partly)

[Michel]

“Inherent Voices: Male Internet Fandom on the Literature of Thomas 
Pynchon,” David Stewart,
Cinema and Media Studies, DePaul University

http://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MPCA_2015_program_9_16-Finalv4.pdf


Op 4-10-2015 14:24, Mark Kohut schreef:
> There is a conference on pop culture-- Midwest PC Association--
> happening in Cincinnati, Ohio
> this weekend and this woman, a law professor, has been tweeting about
> the papers
> and talks.
> Evidently there has been a paper on fandom with a lot of stuff on Pynchon.
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> These tweets should, ideally,  be read in reverse order---but I wan't
> going to move them one-by-one--since that is how they are posted but
> however you read them, they are snippets of the notions in said paper.
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> Explored values, once they're shared, can explode. Fandoms are
> perfecting this. #mpca15
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> You can use fandom studies to help analyze history: Karl Marx fans,
> Adam Smith fans, fans following Chaucer to Canterbury. #mpca15
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> Nimoy occupied a key position in the evolution of fandom as a form of
> social engagement.
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> So to me you're doomed if you do and doomed if you don't if you're a
> celebrity. Are these activities around Pynchon less harmful than RPF?
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> Apparently people at one point speculated Pynchon was the Unabomber. #mpca15
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> He seems to think this is a parody but to me it sounds like people are
> confused that it might actually be Pynchon. Hmm. #mpca15
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> Because Pynchon is so anonymous, a fan posted a video pretending to be
> Pynchon. #mpca15
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> The appearance of the legally problematic word "parody"! Everybody
> drink! #mpca15
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> Apparently Pete Campbell on #madmen reads Thomas Pynchon and I feel
> like that's all I need to know. #mpca15
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> Male fans try to force identity onto Pynchon in a show of strength. #mpca1
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> Pynchon's fandom online is overwhelmingly white male Baby Boomers. #mpca15
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