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Memes are made by shitposters that live in the meatspace, which makes them affected by human schedules. It's a trivial point, but the schema of memes as semi-independent entities that float around on the sea of the Internet is too popular for this point not to be insightful.

'The History of Philosophy summarized & visualized' by Deniz Cem Önduygu, Hüseyin Kuşçu and Eser Aygün is the best interactive map of its kind I've seen. It doesn't just link names or sprawl into an unusable ball of connections. Instead, it lists representative arguments made by each of the philosophers and links them by their relationship with other arguments.

A basic framework for understanding the interplay between visual structure, conceptual organization, visual perception and meaning-making in collage memes that don't contain any text.

For this week's event, we watched a few episodes from North Korea's first animated series, 'Squirrel and Hedgehog'. It's hugely popular in North Korea; 'Squirrel and Hedgehog' originally ran from 1977 to 2005, but resumed production in 2006 due to popular demand. It is currently on hiatus while the studio works on another series called 'The Boy General', a historical series about the kingdom of Gogureyo, one of the Three Kingdoms of ancient Korea.

What I have here is a modest proposal to talk about the more obvious quality of memes as microexpressions of how we think about character, narrative and imagery. This is about when memes act as images of human action.

It's a great example of how shaky the definition of 'Internet meme' as 'a funny image or video clip' really is. Are these photos each a meme, or do they compose a single meme through being viewed together?

The notion of authenticity in online celebrities is concurrent with the notion of authenticity in Internet memes (cf. forced memes) mimics the notion of authenticity in fictional characters (cf. fanon).

Tracing back techniques used in memes to modern art is a safe bet, because it's only natural that memers will use whatever tools are available to make better memes.