Matching energy: The end of caring about reception studies’ racial ambivalence
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Published online on June 04, 2026
Abstract
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This essay proposesmatching energyas a methodology and a citational politic. It calls for marking white audience/fan studies as so particular to whiteness to be useless to the study of race. Matching energy is a process by which one models the behavior ...
This essay proposesmatching energyas a methodology and a citational politic. It calls for marking white audience/fan studies as so particular to whiteness to be useless to the study of race. Matching energy is a process by which one models the behavior ...