... as a monad. This power, however, is fleeting as history is yet again rendered latent and forgotten once it is transformed into a gesture or everyday common sense. In this article, Stefka Hristova offers a comparative analysis of two Internet-driven participatory memes — “Pepper Spray Cop” and “Doing...

... Chazkel | Cultural Commons: An Interview with Nina Paley  139 means of cultural production. In 2009, for instance, Paley launched a series of ani- mated video shorts called Minute Memes. In both form and content, in this work Paley speaks out against the aggressive disinformation campaign through...

... of Stefka Hristova’s comparative analysis of two Internet memes — the “Pepper Spray Cop” and “Doing a Lynndie.” Here iconic images of traumatic events are appropriated, transformed, and retransformed by multiple participants for online dissemination. Such participatory manipulation recontextualizes...

... reorganization whose subtitle, emprunt nouveau, même banque — new loan, same bank — spoke to its unchanging state of affairs. Yet despite Marcelin’s protests, there was something new about the Banque Natio- nale. The new contract signified the beginning of a shift in control over the Banque Nationale from...

.... This framework is far from exhausted, but it remains — at the risk of alienating the growing number of cultural historians interested in the environment — the rationale and entry point for the modern nation-state as the central organizational meme for environmental histories. Increasingly, the rise...

.... This includes creating spaces to generate visions, desires, incantations, actions, memes, and dreams for the kinds of worlds we want to live in. 1 The visitor asked the volunteer staffer if IA had any materials on “anti-fascist organizing.” Back in Seattle, she explained, IYDTW had an installation on display...

... a prominent meme on many of the boards on 2channel. In spite of the extensive online attacks against Koreans, critic Ogiue Chiki argues that many Japanese Internet users do not actively commit to specific social movements. Instead, he claims that Japanese Internet users base their opinions...

... as a fiction, those who came to occupy Liberty Square were deter- mined to reveal others as well, not least by propagating a meme, on signs and t-­shirts and chalked sidewalks, meant to estrange a legal given: “Corporations are not peo- ple.” A truth few could deny, that succinct declaration nonetheless...

... bodies for white profit. As a viral photo meme on Twitter described the NFL draft in 2014, there are disturb- ing visual similarities between the annual...

... represents a new kind of anti-corporate movement distinguished by creativity, self-organization, coalition building, and the will to take on global capitalism.” (Andrew Boyd, “Irony, Meme Warfare, and the Extreme Costume Ball,” in Shepard and Hayduk, From ACT-UP to the WTO, 245). 44...

... hors de la vie politique, mais, ce qui est beaucoup lus caracteristique de ces societes, est que les intellectuels et plus precisement le milieu univer- sitaire agit par et pour lui-meme, comme un acteur de masse, poursui- vant, sa propre p~litique.~ How else could we account...

..., plus c’est la meme chose.” Independence is always presented as a mere counter in the sexual game, like a hairdo or any other flirtatious gesture; sexual feeling utterly defeats its early stirrings. In fact, in Harlequin romances, sexual feeling is probably the main point. Like sex...

... (The Imaginary) (Paris: Gallimard, 1940). 64. Hardt and Negri, Multitude, 45. 65. Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). 66. Jacques Derrida, “Je suis en guerre contre moi-même” (“I Am at War with Myself Le Monde, August 19, 2004. 67. Jacques...

... Africa in this somewhat schizophrenic mode. One Afrikaner historian of the 1930s and 1940~~however, oc- cupies a position distinctively dissimilar to that of his peers. PJ. van der Meme's trilogy of studies of Dutch frontier pastoralists is not concerned with the heroidmythic nineteenth...

... and its environments which is expressed in modern individualism. He therefore claimed, in a passage reminiscent of Royce, that to study Hegel is to understand Nietzsche: “on peut dire que le probleme de Nietzsche et le probleme de Hegel sont un seul et meme probleme.”lo I would conclude...

... Hobsbawm discusses this in relation to France’s definition as “la nation consentie, voulue par elle-même.” He suggests that the vagueness of these types of formulas provides an advantage nationalism has over fundamentalism and argues that this is part of what...

... of Empire These instances of baptism, integration, display, and alienation signal the intimate engagement of extra- Europeans in the making of early modern Europe. Other instances allow us to contextualize a sign and symbol that traversed imperial spaces, materializing as a resilient cultural meme...