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

[Monte Davis]

You just like Pynchon because you're drawn irresistibly to all us
intellectually powerful male Brock Vonds.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 9:51 AM, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com
> wrote:

> So female fans are outliers, too irrelevant to be analyzed? So it goes.
>
> Laura
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> 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
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Explored values, once they're shared, can explode. Fandoms are
> > perfecting this. #mpca15
> >
> > You can use fandom studies to help analyze history: Karl Marx fans,
> > Adam Smith fans, fans following Chaucer to Canterbury. #mpca15
> >
> > Nimoy occupied a key position in the evolution of fandom as a form of
> > social engagement.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Apparently people at one point speculated Pynchon was the Unabomber.
> #mpca15
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Because Pynchon is so anonymous, a fan posted a video pretending to be
> > Pynchon. #mpca15
> >
> > The appearance of the legally problematic word "parody"! Everybody
> > drink! #mpca15
> >
> > Apparently Pete Campbell on #madmen reads Thomas Pynchon and I feel
> > like that's all I need to know. #mpca15
> >
> > Male fans try to force identity onto Pynchon in a show of strength.
> #mpca1
> >
> > Pynchon's fandom online is overwhelmingly white male Baby Boomers.
> #mpca15
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