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<div><b>INC Reader #15</b><br>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the
Viral Image</b></font><br>
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<div>Edited by Chloé Arkenbout, Jack Wilson and Daniel de
Zeeuw</div>
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<div>Beyond the so-called 'Alt-right' and its attendant milieus on
4chan and Reddit, memes have passed the post-digital threshold and
entered new theoretical, practical, and geographical territories
beyond the stereotypical young, white, male, western subject. As they
metastasized from the digital periphery to the mainstream, memes have
seethed with mutant energy. From now on, any historical event will be
haunted by its memetic double. Our responses to memes in the new
decade demand an analogous virtuality.</div>
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<div>This Critical Meme Reader features an array of researchers,
activists, and artists who address the following questions. What is
the current state of the meme producer? What are the semiotics of
memes? How are memes involved in platform capitalism and how do they
operate within the context of different mediascapes? How are memes
used for political counter-strategies? Are memes moving beyond the
image? How can memes be used to design the future? Will there ever be
a last meme in history? Together, the contributors to this reader
combine their global perspectives on meme culture to discuss memetic
subjectivities and communities, the work of art in the age of memetic
production, the post meme, meme warfare, and meme magic - varying
from reflections on real-life experiences to meta meme theory.<br>
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<div><b>Contributors: </b>Crystal Abidin and Bondy Valdovinos
Kaye, Anirban K. Baishya, Aarushi Bapna and Ajitesh
Lokhande, Luther Blissett, Grant Bollmer, Stephanie Boulding,
Lesley Braun, Anthony Burton, Caspar Chan, Clusterduck, Åke
Gafvelin, Idil Galip, Martin Hassen, Geoff Hondroudakis, Max Horwich,
Yasmeen Khaja, Andy King, Ivan Knapp, Jacob Sujin Kuppermann, Anahita
Neghabat, Sarp Özer, Saeeda Saeed, Laurence Scherz and The Trans
Bears, Sabrina Ward-Kimola and Scott Wark.<br>
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<div><b>Copy editor</b>: Geoff Hondroudakis</div>
<div><b>Cover Design</b>: Marijn Bril</div>
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<div>Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
2021</div>
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