January 08, 2020

A great book about fans - 'Fandom of Methodology'

PopMatters is delighted by the new book 'Fandom of Methodology', a collection of experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. PM says "Academics must permit themselves to be fans", and adds - "I am officially a huge fan of 'Fandom as Methodology' because the articulation of these concepts ultimately leads to our liberation from the tyrannies of paranoid strong theory in favor of play and experiment, from the presumption of distanced academic writing in favor of up close and personal loving of one's subject. Long live hybridity of genre! Long live hotness of intellection! Long live the fans!".