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Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? Memes, Design and Politics.

Metahaven
3.87/5 (211 ratings)
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Could the leftovers of graphic design be turned into jokes? Might design rediscover actual societal impact? Can jokes scale? Can they supersize?

These are serious times, or so our governments keep telling us. Strangling economies with their austerity policies, they assure us that they have no choice. In a world where “there is no alternative”, how do you dissent? Once upon a time, graphic designers would have made political posters and typeset manifestos. Today, protest has new strategies. Enter the internet meme. With its Darwinian survival skills and its viral potential, the meme is a way of scaling up protest. Hackers and activists have learned to unleash the destructive force of a Rick Astley video. They have let slip the Lolcats of war. Pranks have become a resistance strategy. As the rise of Beppe Grillo in Italy testifies, this may be the hour to fight nonsense with nonsense. Jokes are an open-source weapon of politics, and it is time to tap their power.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
100 pages
Publication:
2013
Publisher:
Strelka Press
Edition:
1
Language:
en-GB
ISBN10:
5906264051
ISBN13:
9785906264053
kindle Asin:
B00CA2XNB4

Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? Memes, Design and Politics.

Metahaven
3.87/5 (211 ratings)
Read Download
Could the leftovers of graphic design be turned into jokes? Might design rediscover actual societal impact? Can jokes scale? Can they supersize?

These are serious times, or so our governments keep telling us. Strangling economies with their austerity policies, they assure us that they have no choice. In a world where “there is no alternative”, how do you dissent? Once upon a time, graphic designers would have made political posters and typeset manifestos. Today, protest has new strategies. Enter the internet meme. With its Darwinian survival skills and its viral potential, the meme is a way of scaling up protest. Hackers and activists have learned to unleash the destructive force of a Rick Astley video. They have let slip the Lolcats of war. Pranks have become a resistance strategy. As the rise of Beppe Grillo in Italy testifies, this may be the hour to fight nonsense with nonsense. Jokes are an open-source weapon of politics, and it is time to tap their power.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
100 pages
Publication:
2013
Publisher:
Strelka Press
Edition:
1
Language:
en-GB
ISBN10:
5906264051
ISBN13:
9785906264053
kindle Asin:
B00CA2XNB4

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