... motivated to cause change. Currently, though, there’s an abundance of knowledge, and of media, about how fucked up the world is. A variety of texts—memes on “Weird Facebook,” Claudia Rankine’s Citizen , and journalism about Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket —register frustration with assumptions that the...

...After Globalism Writing Group As Internet memes and fake news permeate our collective mediascapes, a return to reasoned, balanced, and civil discourse appears to be the antidote to sensationalism. This essay argues that reason often falls short and that knowledge must be situated within the...

... mobile black men and women coming of age after the rule of the first black president. Meme culture does the work of disseminating the popular narrative as a folk critique of the present. Ben Carson, Omarosa, and even Kanye West all quickly find themselves polemically assigned to the “sunken place.” It is...

... particularly fertile ground. The novel, which took the form of a detective story, was less a whodunit than an epistemological mystery. Mumbo Jumbo details one episode of an ongoing contest between the JGC’s—the carriers of “jes grew,” the meme...