Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image
<p>Memes are bastards, and we love them for it. But memes are bastards in the sense that they are born from two seemingly incompatible ontological registers: an unholy matrimony of semiosis and virality, sense and nonsense, signification and circulation. More on that later. First, let’s acknowledge that the meme is also an infantile and laughable term, as are all words that repeat themselves. Yet—encountering its own stupidity, and making this into its generative principle—it is not ashamed; like any self-respecting idiot savant, it never ceases to persist in its own convoluted wisdoms. ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’, as Einstein’s scientific earworm had it. Call us crazy then, but last time we checked, isn’t there difference in repetition? Deleuzean mic-drop…</p>
Editors: Chloë Arkenbout, Jack Wilson, Daniel de Zeeuw
Contributors: Anthony Glyn Burton, Idil Galip, Sabrina Ward-Kimola, Jacob Sujin Kuppermann, Crystal Abidin, Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Yasmeen Khaja, Max Horwich, Clusterduck, Aria Mag, Noel Nicolaus, Francesca Del Bono, Silvia Dal Dosso, Laurence Scherz, Martin Hanssen, Anahita Neghabat, Saeeda Saeed, Grant Bollmer, Scott Wark, Åke Gafvelin, Geoffrey Hondroudakis, Aarushi Bapna, Ajitesh Lokhande, Andy King, Sarp Özer, Anirban K. Baishya, Stephanie Boulding, The Trans Bears, Caspar Chan, Luther Blissett, Ivan Knapp, Lesley Nicole Braun
Copy Editor: Geoff Hondroudakis
Designer: Marijn Bril, Chloë Arkenbout, Tommaso Campagna
Part of: INC Reader
ISBN: 9789492302779