Appendix: Fan Studies Revisited
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
For our final regular episode, we decided to revisit Fan Studies! We begin with a review of our episodes on Foucault and authorship, Michel de Certeau and the tactics of the disempowered, Jane Tompkins and circulation and Michael Warner's idea of discourse publics. Even though it's our last regular Witch, Please episode, don't be fooled, our Transfiguration segment is a HEADY one and Hannah leads us through mind-bending theory about affective economies and affective economics (two different things!!). If you like feminist theory, you'll love the discussion of Sara Ahmed's 2004 article “Affective Economies," and if you're a media theory nerd (which we suspect you may be...), you'll appreciate when Hannah brings Henry Jenkins into the mix to think about the relationship between media industries and fandoms.
Ultimately, the conversation, inevitably, gets a bit meta and we apply our newly discovered/uncovered/learned theory to the test with a discussion about the changing face of the Harry Potter fandom, the fandom around Witch, Please the podcast and the radical possibilities AND limits of both.
For this episode, we invited our Faculty Club to join in for OWLS so if you hear some unfamiliar voices and brains at work, that's why! Big shoutout to our Faculty Club (a high Patreon tier) for helping us with this last episode and for the financial support. You're why Coach has the hours to add so many sound effects. Hoot, hoot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Hannah McGregor, and I'm Marcel Cospin. |
| 0:19.2 | And Hannah, I want to do something profoundly out of the ordinary because this episode |
| 0:24.8 | isn't ordinary, it's extraordinary. |
| 0:28.0 | Let me explain what I mean in the sorting chat. |
| 0:31.4 | Oh my god, Marcel, what is unusual about what we're doing right now? |
| 0:35.2 | This is our final, regular episode of Witch Please. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah, it's the end of an era. |
| 0:46.1 | So we've invited our beloved faculty to come and hang out with us and talk with us about |
| 0:55.5 | fandoms. |
| 0:56.8 | For those who don't know, the faculty club is one of our Patreon tiers. |
| 1:00.9 | And we know our faculty club members pretty well because they have a special slack channel |
| 1:10.6 | on our actual productions slack. |
| 1:14.4 | So yeah, we hang out with them regularly. |
| 1:17.2 | So this is just some good friends of ours. |
| 1:20.6 | I think one of whom Marcel has met in real life, none of whom I have met in real life, |
| 1:26.1 | but that doesn't matter. |
| 1:27.4 | An internet friend is just a friend you haven't met in real life. |
| 1:31.4 | An internet friend is just a friend you haven't hugged yet. |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 1:35.3 | So because we have the faculty here, we thought we'd use the sorting chat to hear from some |
| 1:43.4 | of the attending faculty club members about your first fandoms. |
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