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Shitposting the Spectacle is a podcast all about memes, whether it's "This is Fine" or Richard Dawkins’s definition that calls it a “unit of cultural transmission"—or, as we see it,...
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Shitposting the Spectacle is a podcast all about memes, whether it's "This is Fine" or Richard Dawkins’s definition that calls it a “unit of cultural transmission"—or, as we see it, both. Each episode, Rock and Colin analyze memes using different theories and concepts to deconstruct both the images themselves and their function in society.
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Shitposting the Spectacle
Shitposting the Spectacle
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10 OCT 2020 · With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history, but for memes, this was only the beginning. This episode explores how the advanced capitalism of Fukuyama’s “end” invokes memes where existence itself is a crisis and people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump are revived as Napoleon, all while political activists continue to subvert old memetic traditions. **Warning** This episode covers the topics of suicide and suicide ideation.
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6 MAY 2020 · Crisis—a catalyst of change in society, thus also in memes. In this episode of STS, Colin and Rock expand on this point from last episode. This continuation focuses on how the responses to world war (Bernays’s public relations, advertising, Dada, and the Situationists) arose to challenge the supremacy and relevance of meme as power in the modern western memecosystem.
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30 AUG 2019 · God save the Queen, or better yet, God save the Meme. In this episode of STS, Colin and Rock step back from the present’s commercialized memes into the memes of European political powers from the Medieval to the modern. Tracing the Sistine Chapel to Napoleon Crossing the Alps demonstrates that the birth of political power, and its ability to hold onto power in moments of crisis, relies on memes.
Shitposting the Spectacle is a podcast all about memes, whether it's "This is Fine" or Richard Dawkins’s definition that calls it a “unit of cultural transmission"—or, as we see it,...
show more
Shitposting the Spectacle is a podcast all about memes, whether it's "This is Fine" or Richard Dawkins’s definition that calls it a “unit of cultural transmission"—or, as we see it, both. Each episode, Rock and Colin analyze memes using different theories and concepts to deconstruct both the images themselves and their function in society.
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