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.
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.
Metamemetics November 30, 2021 Claudia Vulliamy
Game Studies September 10, 2017 Seong-Young Her
Game Studies April 4, 2019 Seong-Young Her
Culture April 4, 2022 Seong-Young Her
May 5, 2026 The Philosopher's Meme
May 2, 2026 The Philosopher's Meme
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of fake philosophy quotes.
Who owns the memes? How dare we ask such a laughable question?
Simon Evnine responds to Vulliamy's recent article on the definition of memes.
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.
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.
A Modern Synthesis of art criticism is possible.
GamerGaters were correct in their assessment of gaming culture and the games industry precisely because of the conspiracy theoretical nature of their campaign.
A central theme of post-2015 memecultures was the gamification of memes. This gave rise to Facebook memepages as well as a "meme president". Post-2020 memecultures now struggle with the challenge of the cope, which is an inevitable consequence of creating new games with a loss condition.