In my research on nerd cul­ture, I have been try­ing to dis­tin­guish between, on the one hand, an under­stand­ing of sub­cul­ture as a kind of iden­tity posi­tion or “imag­ined com­mu­nity” (Ander­son 1983) and, on the other hand, a “sub­cul­tural scene.” The dis­tinc­tion here is between an abstract and trans-local field (the sub­cul­ture) and a...

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