Culture April 4, 2022
Homesteading the Memeosphere
Who owns the memes? How dare we ask such a laughable question?
Start here for questions about who owns memes and what it means to build a memetic commons.
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What Is A Meme?
Metamemetics November 30, 2021 Claudia Vulliamy
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Memes Are Not Jokes, They Are Diagram-Games
Game Studies September 10, 2017 Seong-Young Her
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The Memetic Bottleneck
Game Studies April 4, 2019 Seong-Young Her
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Homesteading the Memeosphere
Culture April 4, 2022 Seong-Young Her
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Metamemetics
The new philosophy of memetics. Originally published in Critical Meme Reader III.
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Frog After Frog: Prompt Engineering With Alternate Translations
I report the results of a prompt engineering experiment on DALL-E 2 involving different Japanese-to-English translations of the Frog Haiku by Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉, 1644 – November 28, 1694).
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Wittgenstein's Most Beloved Quote Was Real, But It's Fake Now
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of fake philosophy quotes.
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Homesteading the Memeosphere
Who owns the memes? How dare we ask such a laughable question?
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Memes and Humor: Reply to Claudia Vulliamy's "What is a Meme?"
Simon Evnine responds to Vulliamy's recent article on the definition of memes.
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On Circlejerk
The logic of capitalism is reproduced in online communities as circlejerks, where quantified affirmation supplants monetary profit. Like capitalism, democratized Internet culture is inadequate to its own promise of freedom. Originally published in 2017.
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What Is A Meme?
A cluster definition of memes, taking into account memographic practice, comedy, public shareability, use of images and/or text, digitality, appropriation, anonymity, ephemerality and stylistic resemblance to other memes.
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We Can Have Retrieval-Inference Synthesis
A Modern Synthesis of art criticism is possible.