KH
Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.bsky.social
Social science and other distractions.
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ACTUALLY A MEME IS AT ITS FUNNIEST NOT AS A UNIQUE IMAGE PEOPLE FEEL COMPELLED TO SHARE FOR ITS INTERNAL CONTENT BUT AS A RELATIONAL EXPRESSION THAT DEPENDS FOR ITS MEANING ON A BROADER WEB OF SIGNIFIERS EVEN AS THIS WHOLLY UNDERCUTS THE VERY IDEA OF A “MEME” AS SELF-REPRODUCING UNIT OF MEANING
It Stinks!
Pfft, nerd
Suck it, Dawkins.
Does this replace “bored girl listening to drunk lad at a club” meme, or is it complimentary?
THE MEME by Marcel Mauss
I miss the hybridised, deeply contextual YTMND masterpieces for this exact reason.
Thanks for explaining to everyone. Don't know what we'd do...
KH
Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.bsky.social
Social science and other distractions.
kieranhealy.org /
theordinalsociety.com
10.8k followers201 following2.6k posts