Posts Tagged: critical meme reader

Call For Proposals – Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme 

By Chloë Arkenbout, April 18, 2023

The meme is dead. Or at least that is what opinion pieces, magazine articles, conference presentations, and even memes themselves have declared over the years. Despite this, “meme” is as pervasive a neologism as ever, used to describe a variety of digital media. Everything from bits of internet humor, image-macros, viral videos, to copy-pasta, urban [...]

Call for Speculative Theory: Critical Meme Reader #2: Memetic Tacticality 

By Chloë Arkenbout, March 22, 2022

The power of memes has developed beyond virtual images. The distinction between the virtual and the ‘real life’ no longer applies, or perhaps never really existed. The effects (or should we say affects?) of memes move through digital infrastructures, policies, regulations, agencies, and bodies. How can we democratically and collectively design memes as an active [...]

Recap: Critical Meme Reader Launch @ Spui25

By Chloë Arkenbout, November 23, 2021

On the occasion of the launch of the ‘Critical Meme Reader, Global Mutations of the Viral Image’, edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Jack Wilson and Daniel de Zeeuw, we dived into meme studies on the 7th of October at Spui25. Beyond the so-called ‘Alt-right’ and its attendant milieus on 4chan and Reddit, memes have passed the [...]

Le Meme D’Auteur, Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Original Content Memes

By Clusterduck, October 13, 2021

At the start of the third decade of the 21st century, while internet Memes certainly can’t be considered a cultural novelty anymore, their definition remains as elusive and difficult as ever. According to Limor Shifman, the three main attributes of memes are their gradual propagation from individuals to society, their reproduction via copying and imitation, [...]