Meme: a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.
Or so it used to be. I remember a time when memes were exciting. Units of cultural information. The viral (r)evolution. I recently declared that “memes died in 2005″ which created a lot of controversy among my readers. How can memes be dead?
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Do you hate? I know that I do. For some people hate has gone out of style. For others it has become so commercialized that it is no different from wearing jeans from The Gap. Peronsally I think it’s time to bring fun and passion back into hate. In the tradition of the Things I Love Thursday column by International Playgirl Gala Darling I would like to bring you Things I Hate Tuesday. Every Tuesday I will be making a list of things that I hate. My mission as a web two point oh blogger is to prove that content can be king without containing feel good self help messages or manuals on how to increase your social media presence. The hate will now begin.
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I was wondering what everybody here thought of Pitchfork Media. They are pretty much considered the gods of the underground/indie music world and their opinion is held in extremely high regard among music listeners between the ages of 15 and 35. They are able to cover bands like Brokencyde but unwilling to cover any bands in the goth/industrial/ebm/whathefuckever genre. The only band they even considered covering was Nine Inch Nails and the review they were given was abysmal. While I see Reznor as a bit of a joke I can’t deny that he is a good producer who has been highly influential to me. Yet Pitchfork Media declared that he was basically just a whiny teenager who needed to shut the fuck up. Maybe this is true but my problem was that they did not actually review his music. They reviewed him for being a gothtard.
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We get it. You think American Idol is lame. Idol worship makes you want to vomit. Self important teenagers have more fans than your dark ambient project. Cool story bro. Think you could stop acting like a turd now?
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Transhuman Separatism meets Academia: A Dangerous Extreme?
One of the things I find interesting about being an intellectual on the fringes of culture is the conservatism of the academic movement. Recently The Transhuman Separatist Manifesto was published over at Humanity + Magazine. As many of you know I have been uniting “people like us” for over a decade as a multi-media artist. My goal is to inspire people who understand our universal struggle as artists and intellectuals without giant bank accounts. Le Petit Bourgeois.
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