Re: Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters

ther: from kooky theories to cinematic fragments to > backroom agreements on the fringes of governmentality. But these delirious > landscapes are *precisely* where and how memes operate. I don't think > Benjamin's theories have much to say about this all — not without doing > serious t

Re: Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters

e know how he reacted, don't we? I dimly remember — as if through a glass (or maybe a scanner) darkly — that his suicide involved a glass of wine, and even more dimly that it was said to be white, not red. ❤️ Ted On 4 Apr 2018, at 2:46, Geert Lovink wrote: Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectic

Re: Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters

Great text Geert, very timely! Benjamin, for sure, got inspired by the earlier secular God-building practise of Gorky and Lunacharsky in Capri, which they initiated in the aftermath of the 1905. Capri, and Gorky's place on the island, was where

Re: Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters

> On Apr 4, 2018, at 12:16 PM, Geert Lovink (1) wrote: > > Over the past years, in part through memes, a great many previously > disaffected young people became attracted to politics.(17) In this regard, > the notion of “red-pilling” became a central trope, a kind of right of

Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters

Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters (This is part II of our critical meme theory. The first part was posted to nettime on February 11, 2018) Web version: https://non.copyriot.com/rude-awakening-memes-as-dialectical-images/ “It’s not that what is past c