Introduce yourself!

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@Lunchbox

Ladies, if your man has only one kidney and one set of book gills as a result of super coiling of the outer shell from evolution over generations in order to better prevent predation from birds by making himself with less surface area for a beak to grab onto, then that ain’t yo man that’s a mollusk.

Welcome, Niko! I can't believe that mollusc lied to me.

@fiuf

Hello! I’m fluff, I’m a CS major turned English major.

Hi fluff, welcome! Do you still do both CS stuff and literary stuff? This is such a great setting for a crossover between the two, and it seems like many of us are doing something similar.

@barroer

thesis about Kafka and Deleuze & Guattari’s influence on Mark Fisher’s vision of the bureaucratic apparatus.

Hey Oscar, welcome! I would love to read about your thesis. I read Derrida's essay on Kafka's "Before the Law" not too long ago (through the LLM reading group led by @Ginia) and that was quite the challenge. The metaphysics of law and bureaucracy become much more of a real concern in an age when increasingly more things are as much a part of the Internet as the Internet is a part of them; code is law after all.

@Toast

I did a talk a couple of years back entitled Rene Girard and the Philosopher’s Meme

I remember that talk! Welcome, Stephen. And your thesis sounds really interesting, too. Was there something about philosophy as "first performance" too?

Try using the forum as a place to take notes and muse as you work on the paper, if you like. I've been testing out the idea and the forum format seems to work exceptionally well for putting down notes.

@Vaelyon

Interests I have related to meme culture are the “subversively wholesome”: hyper-femme aesthetics, pastels/kawaii, cottagecore, traumacore. Lately creating things that look “bad” on purpose is fascinating to me. I’m also a lifelong game- especially RPG- enjoyer. I like narratives, and the way memes evolve is a pretty neat form of collective storytelling in my eyes.

Welcome, Megan! I really love the way that you take new ideas, new creative tools, and new platforms and simply jump into playing with them in an earnest way. It's inspiring to me.

@ViscousLinguini

I wrote about there being no possibility for “new” memes

Welcome, @ViscousLinguini! The thread you made about this was fascinating. I still have some more thoughts to post into the thread. Post more of your existing posts and writing if you have anything else you want to discuss here!

@Ginia

Superhero comics have a lot of memes, but literature has a lot of memes in general. I follow a lot of comics meme pages, and comics are good for meme-making because a lot of time it's just a screenshot of a panel that makes up a meme.

Welcome, Ginia! Half the memes that exist are just edited comics, and memes are structured much like comics anyway, so it's a perfect fit. I think if you understand comics, you can also understand much of what makes memes effective.

@fuhhlarzablur

Still slogging my way through undergrad so no particular research interests as such, but I spend a lot of my free reading time on pol-phil, libcom, poststructuralism, specfic, and increasingly Chinese history, culture & language. I'd love to develop Gothic Marxism more as an idea/aesthetic, feel like there's a lot of scope for that in the wake of Fisherwave (which is already a phantasm) and the current growing intersection of class consciousness and occult interests.

Welcome, Felix. Good to have you here.

What is "Gothic Marxism"? I'm really into polphil as well but I need to catch up on postleft stuff and other meme-political materials. It would be cool to discuss Fisherwave in the Research subforum too.