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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Here is the video I made for the “It Gets Better” campaign to fight against gay teen suicide and cyberbullying. I encourage all of you to make your own.
The word on the streets is out. Sanity is slavery!
For this past year machineKUNT Records (home to Experiment Haywire, Trimetrick, Lady Parasyte, Syrenn etc.) are hard at work on the “Sanity is Slavery” compilation to fight against psychiatric abuse through music. This is a 2 digipack CD compilation which also includes a digital bonus disc. 10% of proceeds are going to MindFreedom International which is an organization dedicated to mental health rights. The compilation features 48 diverse (mostly unreleased) tracks from artists across the globe including Attrition, Hanin Elias, Leæther Strip, amGod, Pzychobitch, and Trimetrick. It is mastered by Kolja Trelle of Soman.
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How the Rise of the Information War gave birth to a new Digital Culture
What happened? For the past few years I’ve been nailing the death of the Internet into the coffin. I recently posted about The Death of Memetics and was all but ready to give up on creating any sort of digital revolution. The cancer had spread too fast and we were completely outnumbered. The new generation of cyber-thugs decided to shit on the city that we built for them. Anonymous was no longer about free information but getting depressed 12 year old goth girls to kill themselves. The mobbing of innocent people was not related to natural selection but sexual rejection. Bullycide everywhere.
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