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... 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 Left can...

...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...

..., director of Get Out, signifying on the appointment of black conservative Ben Carson to Trump’s cabinet Get Out thus invents a powerful new genre allegory for upwardly mobile black men and women coming of age after the rule of the first black president. Meme culture does the work of disseminating...

.... Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices . Lanham, MD : Altamira , 2008 . De Cesari Chiara , Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2019 . Deterritorial Support Group . “ All the Memes...

... also Appadurai, Banking on Words ; Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities . 63. See Shilliam, Race and the Undeserving Poor . 64. See Wang, Carceral Capitalism . 65. See Donovan, Dreyfuss, and Friedberg, Meme Wars . 66. See Haiven, “Creative...

... showed that it is best to trust in whatever (and whoever) has been silenced, painted over, deleted, curfewed, held without due process, exorcized, disappeared, or murdered. In Cali, the writing and painting on the walls, the lyrics in urban music, the music videos, and the memes and video art...

... subordinated themselves to cultural replicator codes (such as race, gender, class, and sexuality). 9 Dawkins might agree with the above, since it neatly mirrors his work on memes as a nongenetic form of natural selection that recapitulates the vehicle-replicator distinction in the realm of culture...

... the JGC’s—the carriers of “jes grew,” the meme of African diasporic cul- ture—and the Atonists, supporters of the “Western civilization” mythol- 6 Alondra Nelson ogy of world history. The novel’s plot centers around competing efforts to encourage and restrain...

... when there is cake?” or “Why have sex when you can have cake?” This delightful refrain has often been repeated by asexual visibility memes and activists as both slogan and explanatory tool. Of all the things that asexuality is or can be, I would gesture to the following: A lack of sexual desire...

... introduced this deep network in “Going Deeper with Convolutions,” a technical paper that took its title from a then-popular internet meme featuring the text “we need to go deeper.” 22 In their paper, the creators of Inception demonstrate and explain the power of their neural network, which was twenty-two...

... of queer youth communities and emo subculture in Brian Peters, “Emo Gay Boys and Subculture: Postpunk Queer Youth and (Re)thinking Images of Masculinity,” Journal of LGBT Youth 7, no. 2 (2010): 129 – 46. 41. The ubiquity and proliferation of these memes is typical of material cir- culating...

... public sight. What is the Metro (or the bus), however, other than a frequent occasion of practicing public intimacies? Recent debates and memes about space sharing on public transit (e.g., “man spreading”) suggest that these environments are fraught precisely because of varying notions of what kinds...

... international media attention, though in China most critical responses to it appeared online, in the form of viral images and darkly humorous memes that imagined increasingly unstable borders between species. In closing, I return to America shortly after the Huangpu pig float, when the Chinese conglomerate...

... that moral rhetoric like Rohatyn’s obscures. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose . . . Crisis entails an interruption of normalcy, a suspension of time between the past and the future. During the 1970s fiscal crisis, time...

... wasn’t there — he wasn’t well at the time — but he was very much there in my mind. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Very quickly, we all discovered this “ges- tural meme,” as Lindsay Reckson has identifed it. The gesture, Reck- son notes, “demands...