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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

So female fans are outliers, too irrelevant to be analyzed? So it goes.

Laura

Michel <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

>“Inherent Voices: Male Internet Fandom on the Literature of Thomas 
>Pynchon,” David Stewart,
>Cinema and Media Studies, DePaul University
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>http://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MPCA_2015_program_9_16-Finalv4.pdf
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>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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