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.
The Philosopher's Meme
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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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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.
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GamerGate As Metagaming
GamerGaters were correct in their assessment of gaming culture and the games industry precisely because of the conspiracy theoretical nature of their campaign.
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GME Frenzy Hints At the New Stage of Memecultures
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.