Posts Tagged: meme studies

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 [...]

Memes, Irony and Ugliness

By Idil Galip, December 17, 2021

Several months ago, I was having a conversation with my friend Chloë about the future of memes and she asked me what my favourite meme was. The question stumped me at first, because how could I pick one? My brain is a meme dumpster, where families of memes exist in chaotic harmony, and trying to [...]

Call for Proposals – Memes Beyond the Image 

By Chloë Arkenbout, December 1, 2021

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for theorists, researchers, journalists, artists, activists, designers and other creatives and thinkers that are working on meme studies and practices, that want to participate in two upcoming events: A workshop during the concluding programme of the Berlin Transmediale 2021–22 festival at Transmediale Studio in Berlin on the 27th [...]

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, [...]