everything you’ve written has been distilled into a few jokes
all your suffering can’t be related if we can’t find a way to turn it into a soundbite – language doesn’t say everything but it’s better than nothing
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critical thought began as a bar joke, a pithy insult, a proverbial statement that eliminated people in favour of generalities
the best way to express tragedy is with humour
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never underestimate the superficial – anyone you don’t know, take time to get to know their expressions – find suitable descriptions to contextualize and validate them
share things with your friends
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a post-technological reckoning – an analysis of the increasingly product-driven valorization of knowledge – where space is given as a series of symbolic approximations – nostalgia for home, the highest statistical logo probability
how things used to be
when these are memes or not memes
how to write philosophy/ideas in the context/language that has currency in social media – liking it or not
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Social media as the focal point of technological discussion, and the “meme” as one of many recent web terms trying to grapple with a descriptive system for the kinds of cultural creations that can gain an existence and currency within digital space
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if it is the job of the cultural worker to unearth communication in vulgar forms – to participate generally – what is that in internet terms...
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...to create pictorial and verbal forms that might stretch a given notion of a meme... to find space where your personal desire in art and what the medium affords may/may not come together in new social modes both impersonally current and expressively sensitive. ...to invent/seek out tropes (shares, statuses, screenshots, compositions, found photos, or whatever else) that relate the meme to a more general linguistic/aesthetic tendency and to a form of personal expression.
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Comic-al Memes ·
Fishgape is the new duckface
Davin Heckman
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Jeremy Hight
Jeff T. Johnson
Kelly Lydick
Mark Marino
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Orchid Tierney
Erik Zepka