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

[Mark Kohut]

I think this remark came after the writer explored mistaken
projections of some onto Pynchon.
Unabomber, most egregiously, others maybe.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:33 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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
>>> > -
>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>> >
>>>
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