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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philosophy
Articles tagged philosophy.
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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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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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Postnaturalism
All technology exerts some epistemic influence on the observer, and this is often epistemologically relevant; the proper function of philosophy is to study the epistemic effect of technology, and to design and produce epistemically useful technology; localised agreements rather than shared beliefs, entailed by the use of common technology, are sufficient foundations for philosophical discourse.
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Every Gondola Is a Shrine
I think of every gondola post as a shrine, for people to come together and appreciate them in a spiritual way.
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How to Digitally Coauthor Articles In Philosophy Class
A group assignment activity for philosophy students at the undergraduate level, which can be applied in tandem with existing curricula. Consists of a way to standardise the work of each individual student such that each student’s contributions to the group assignment fits in seamlessly with the other team members’ contributions, and a way to apply the system to the specific course material being assessed.
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The Memetic Bottleneck
Like a panel in a highly networked version of the Infinite Canvas, every meme is both a potential bottleneck and a possible choice. Since the sense that every meme has a preceding meme is essential to the appreciation of memes, the memetic bottleneck works in the inverse direction of the narrative bottleneck, generating potential pasts. To choose a meme to post is to choose which game to play with the audience. More significantly, it is to choose which save file to load up: it's scenario editing of history, conditioned on current mood.
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The Memeticist's Challenge Remains Open
Seong's thesis on the memeticist's challenge (2018). Supervised by Diane Proudfoot and Douglas Campbell, and completed at the University of Canterbury.
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Memes Are Not Jokes, They Are Diagram-Games
The meme means different things to different viewers as a matter of degrees, not a matter of either getting the joke or missing it, or reading it ironically or not.
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The Structures of Hyperspatial Politics
Sites of content production in Web 2.0 are strategic assets which make up the terrain of political conflict in hyperspace.
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A School of Internet Philosophy
I think there's a school of ‘Internet philosophy’ like there is continental philosophy or Anglo-American philosophy, with its own dominant interests and a unique style of discourse. I'm trying to figure out what this consists of. It's a combination of demographics, dominant areas of interest (both within and without strict philosophy) and conventions and canons unique to the school.
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An Internet Koan
I just found a really strange website where a guy claims Zen is a scam and that he's figured out how to solve any koan. He even provides a Free Zen Riddle and Koan Service through which you can email him a koan and receive an answer.
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See the Problem?
The problem is causality. And no: shouting at me won’t make it less true.
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The Revised Quadrant Model
Revised model of the four quadrants model of irony.
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Undertale Review
Undertale is a game that's very difficult to convince people to play, which is a huge shame because it's probably one of the most affecting games produced in the last 10 years.
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A Short Note On Gondola
There's a new meme becoming popular in the Anglosphere called Gondola. It's a derivative of Spurdo Sparde with no arms or dialogue, generally walking around in various scenes from classic artworks to everyday life. I think they could be most easily characterized in opposition to Pepe or Spurdo, both of whom are subversive in the classically Ironic Meme style of inappropriateness. Pepe will murder Wojak over and over while Spurdo will spout every satirizable position in misspelled and poorly drawn way possible. As usual, everyone's worry is about how normies will ruin Gondola. Not if or when; it's taken for granted that Gondola will become corrupted.
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Bane, Loss and Phylogeny
I have been developing a theory of Internet Memes, through which I hope to operationalize memetics for the scientific analysis of Internet Meme culture. Here is a case study I used to test and develop some of my models.
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The Quadrant System for the Categorization of Internet Memes
Memes are not just art they are art-concepts, necessarily materialized cybernetically. This means their analysis must always be two-tiered, firstly, memetic; secondly, aesthetic.
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Misattributed Plato Quote Is Real Now
It seems to me that 'quotes' such as these which become canon in the public psyche take on a special kind of force that highlights the close relationship between truth and beauty, as well as the fact that the two are not one and the same--although (I hope you will agree) truth is often beautiful, and there is always some truth in beauty.
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The Artist-Philosopher Manifesto
We, the artists of the future, refuse to be the plaything of politics.