Object-Oriented Gaga, the Meme
À propos of my “Object-Oriented Gaga” talk/video (or not…): I ran across the above image while doing some follow-up research on the topic. Filed under: “weird stuff.”
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Phenomenology Memes
On this blog, I have occasionally written about memes — for example, in relation to seriality and Niklas Luhmann’s theory of media or superheroes and the politics and media practices of #Occupy (here and here). I also looked at the “Pepper Spraying Cop” meme and suggested, in a post called “Photoshop and the Phenomenology of Violence,” that […]
Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Memes
Over at her blog Judgmental Observer, Amanda Ann Klein has a great post up about Internet memes, their workings, and their humor. In addition to the central themes of “cruelty” and “self-loathing” that she sees at work, Klein points to two formal aspects of successful memes: “recognizability” and “repetition.” This reminded me of Niklas Luhmann’s […]
Out Now: Digital Seriality — Special Issue of Eludamos
The latest issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, a special issue devoted to the topic of “Digital Seriality” — edited by yours truly, together with Andreas Jahn-Sudmann — is now out! Weighing in at 198 pages, this is one of the fattest issues yet of the open-access journal, and it’s jam-packed with great stuff like: […]
“Digital Seriality” — Panel at #SCMS15 in Montreal
At the upcoming conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (March 25-29, 2015 in Montréal), I will be participating in a panel on “Digital Seriality,” co-chaired by Andreas Jahn-Sudmann and Scott Higgins, along with Dominik Maeder and Daniela Wentz. Here is our panel description, along with links (below) to the abstracts for the various papers: Digital […]
Daniela Wentz, “The Infinite Gesture: The Serial Culture of the Gif” #SCMS15
Here is the abstract for Daniela Wentz’s paper on the panel “Digital Seriality” at the 2015 SCMS conference in Montréal: The Infinite Gesture: The Serial Culture of the Gif Daniela Wentz (Bauhaus University) The looping digital moving image format of the animated gif enjoys an extremely high level of popularity at present within (digital) media […]
Shane Denson, “Animation as Theme and Medium: Frankenstein and Visual Culture”
Here is the abstract for Shane Denson’s talk at the Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference at Dartmouth College (April 19 – 21, 2013): Animation as Theme and Medium: Frankenstein and Visual Culture Shane Denson Frankenstein and above all Frankenstein’s monster are emphatically plurimedial figures; already in the nineteenth century, they escaped the confines of Mary […]
The Graphics of Iterability
Oh look: a Derrida meme that self-reflexively theorizes the serial workings of the meme!
Animation and the Delimitation of Cinema
What is cinema? This question has been posed innumerable times, and innumerable answers have been offered in response — some of them good, some less satisfying, but most of them in some way biased, partial, and in any case less than comprehensive. If I wager an answer of my own, it will surely suffer from […]
Discorrelated Images: Chaos Cinema, Post-Cinematic Affect, and Speculative Realism
On the occasion of our “Chaos Cinema” film series, where the topic yesterday was Michael Bay’s Transformers (2007), I gave a short talk on the notion of “discorrelated images” — an idea that percolates (though is not named as such) in my dissertation, emerging through conversation with a number of thinkers, ideas, and images: Deleuze (and […]
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