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

[John Bailey]

"Male fans try to force identity onto Pynchon in a show of strength." Huh?

I think the focus on male fans here is in response to the usual
gendering of fandom itself as emasculating..

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:26 AM, kelber at mindspring.com
<kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Alas, Mark, I am not now, nor have I ever been, an academic. But it's a good
> paper topic for some errant scholar, trawling the ether for fresh ideas.
>
> Laura
>
>
> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> C' mon Laura...you ( and maybe Becky and Emma and any others my male
> narcissism forgets) do the refutation. Do it. Write it.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 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
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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>> >
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