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

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

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 casts