On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:01:13 +1100, mez breeze wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Rob Myers wrote: > >> There are so many, and some of them are really funny. Watching >> memes >> spread still fascinates me. > > Agreed. Funny how the idea of meme culture is still very much > relegated into a lo-brow category [or auto-deemed lesser by the > creation-via-the-greater-unwashed-digital-public > association/implication alone] by a category of "serious" > artists-and/or-theorists [ie those still keen to perpetuate such > compartmentalised divisions in order to gate-keep their > practice>process>value].
Yes. This is frustrating, as it's that "everyone is an artist" thing people used to talk about. Eventally some gallery-represented hipster will dumbly appropriate meme culture and the sighs of relief will be audible. > As I've said previously: "...when theorists actually realise > 4chan/enc_dramatica r the 21st C equiv of Situational > Internationalists, they'll crap all ova themselves...(@netwurker's > status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-09 21:11:15 UTC)". The problem will be reducing the messy and complex history of 4chan to one or two "leaders" suitable for a simple and market friendly narrative. Punks and net artists have had to put up with this, but they don't tend to DDOS the servers of people they don't like... - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
