Pulp modernism builds a shared mythos-space rather than discrete authored texts

Evidence

The inter-textual methodology is crucial to pulp modernism. If pulp modernism first of all asserts the author-function over the creative-expressive subject, it secondly asserts a fictional system against the author-God. By producing a fictional plane of consistency across different texts, the pulp modernist becomes a conduit through which a world can emerge. Once again, Lovecraft is the exemplar here: his tales and novellas could in the end no longer be apprehended as discrete texts but as part-objects forming a mythos-space which other writers could also explore and extend. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1145

Categorization

• XREF: Holds up against the reader’s earlier work on worldbuilding (trees as infrastructure) and against mythos-building in shared fictional universes generally. — connects to: Pulp characters function as mythos carriers rather than rounded persons — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1144
• DEEPTHINKING: The pulp-modernist idea of the author as conduit for an emergent shared fictional world unsettles standard authorship and originality models in a way worth sitting with.

Broader Connections

• Pulp characters function as mythos carriers rather than rounded persons #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1144