INC Reader #15 

Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image 

Edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Jack Wilson and Daniel de Zeeuw

Beyond the so-called ‘Alt-right’ and its attendant milieus on 4chan and Reddit, 
memes have passed the post-digital threshold and entered new theoretical, 
practical, and geographical territories beyond the stereotypical young, white, 
male, western subject. As they metastasized from the digital periphery to the 
mainstream, memes have seethed with mutant energy. From now on, any historical 
event will be haunted by its memetic double. Our responses to memes in the new 
decade demand an analogous virtuality.

This Critical Meme Reader features an array of researchers, activists, and 
artists who address the following questions. What is the current state of the 
meme producer? What are the semiotics of memes? How are memes involved in 
platform capitalism and how do they operate within the context of different 
mediascapes? How are memes used for political counter-strategies? Are memes 
moving beyond the image? How can memes be used to design the future? Will there 
ever be a last meme in history? Together, the contributors to this reader 
combine their global perspectives on meme culture to discuss memetic 
subjectivities and communities, the work of art in the age of memetic 
production, the post meme, meme warfare, and meme magic – varying from 
reflections on real-life experiences to meta meme theory.

Contributors: Crystal Abidin and Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Anirban K. Baishya, 
Aarushi Bapna and Ajitesh Lokhande, Luther Blissett, Grant Bollmer, Stephanie 
Boulding, Lesley Braun, Anthony Burton, Caspar Chan, Clusterduck, Åke Gafvelin, 
Idil Galip, Martin Hassen, Geoff Hondroudakis, Max Horwich, Yasmeen Khaja, Andy 
King, Ivan Knapp, Jacob Sujin Kuppermann, Anahita Neghabat, Sarp Özer, Saeeda 
Saeed, Laurence Scherz and The Trans Bears, Sabrina Ward-Kimola and Scott Wark.

Copy editor: Geoff Hondroudakis
Cover Design: Marijn Bril
Design and EPUB development: Chloë Arkenbout and Tomasso Campagna
Printing and binding: GPS Internationale Handels Holding GMBH
Cover font: Terminal Grotesque Regular by Raphaël Bastide (Velvetyne)

Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2021

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