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Shitposting the Spectacle

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    Deep Fried Memes at the End of History

    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.
    1h 15m 56s
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    STS004: The Meme Is Dead, Long Live the Meme!

    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.
    2h 15m 35s
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    STS003: God Save the Meme

    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.
    1h 19m 39s

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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