Julian Reidy – författare

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of memes, covering everything from pandemic humour to far-right propaganda, from feminist memes to algorithmic censorship. Memes are far more than light entertainment - they are complex cultural artefacts that play a role in politics, in art, and in platform economics.Taking a cultural studies perspective, the authors analyse individual memes in entertaining case studies, systematising their findings in order to redefine this digital form of communication. Chapters connect memes with other digital phenomena such as trolling, and combine extensive close readings of exemplary individual memes with regards to form and aesthetics with an acute awareness of power dynamics and other context phenomena surrounding memes. The book develops an innovative theoretical approach that presents the term “memesis” to capture the very specific quality of meme production and reception as a form of collective creative rewriting of a template in accordance with algorithmic logic.Offering an important contribution not only to the still young field of meme studies but also to the general negotiations of questions around digital literacy, this book will interest not only scholars and students of digital media, visual communication, cultural studies, and media and politics but anyone with a keen interest in digital culture - and how it shapes our lives.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of memes, covering everything from pandemic humour to far-right propaganda, from feminist memes to algorithmic censorship. Memes are far more than light entertainment - they are complex cultural artefacts that play a role in politics, in art, and in platform economics.Taking a cultural studies perspective, the authors analyse individual memes in entertaining case studies, systematising their findings in order to redefine this digital form of communication. Chapters connect memes with other digital phenomena such as trolling, and combine extensive close readings of exemplary individual memes with regards to form and aesthetics with an acute awareness of power dynamics and other context phenomena surrounding memes. The book develops an innovative theoretical approach that presents the term "e;memesis"e; to capture the very specific quality of meme production and reception as a form of collective creative rewriting of a template in accordance with algorithmic logic.Offering an important contribution not only to the still young field of meme studies but also to the general negotiations of questions around digital literacy, this book will interest not only scholars and students of digital media, visual communication, cultural studies, and media and politics but anyone with a keen interest in digital culture - and how it shapes our lives.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of memes, covering everything from pandemic humour to far-right propaganda, from feminist memes to algorithmic censorship. Memes are far more than light entertainment - they are complex cultural artefacts that play a role in politics, in art, and in platform economics.Taking a cultural studies perspective, the authors analyse individual memes in entertaining case studies, systematising their findings in order to redefine this digital form of communication. Chapters connect memes with other digital phenomena such as trolling, and combine extensive close readings of exemplary individual memes with regards to form and aesthetics with an acute awareness of power dynamics and other context phenomena surrounding memes. The book develops an innovative theoretical approach that presents the term "e;memesis"e; to capture the very specific quality of meme production and reception as a form of collective creative rewriting of a template in accordance with algorithmic logic.Offering an important contribution not only to the still young field of meme studies but also to the general negotiations of questions around digital literacy, this book will interest not only scholars and students of digital media, visual communication, cultural studies, and media and politics but anyone with a keen interest in digital culture - and how it shapes our lives.

Das 19. Jahrhundert sei „wohnsüchtig" gewesen, diagnostizierte Walter Benjamin einst. Das „Raumgefühl" (August Schmarsow) dieser Epoche prägt das literarische Werk Thomas Manns. Die Studie deutet Manns literarische Raumentwürfe nicht biographisch oder textimmanent, sondern begreift sie als Versuchsanordnungen zur materiellen Kultur, denen diskursanalytisch, wissensgeschichtlich und ideologiekritisch auf den Grund zu gehen ist. Dazu werden die in einschlägigen Werken Manns entworfenen Raumsemantiken in genauen Textlektüren profiliert: Die Arbeit untersucht etwa die Buddenbrooks im Hinblick auf zeitgenössische Diskurse um Interieurs und bürgerlichen Lebensstil; sie geht dem spatialisierten „Feindbegriff" (Reinhart Koselleck) des Barbarischen im Zauberberg nach und analysiert Topographien der Exilerfahrung in Joseph und seine Brüder. Ihr spezifisches Erkenntnisinteresse ermöglicht neue Einsichten auch zu vermeintlich „ausinterpretierten" (Helmut Koopmann) Texten.

This study deals with the literary treand known as "Väterliteratur": The successful "Väterbücher", most of which were published in the 1970s, are commonly thought to be manifestations of confrontations with fathers who were possibly complicit in Nazi crimes and who symbolically represent this problematic past. The whole genre is usually considered to be an ancillary phenomenon to the so-called "Neue Subjektivität". The book raises the question whether these terms and classifications are actually meaningful and helpful in reading and understanding the "Väterliteratur". On the basis of extensive textual analyses coupled with critical re-evaluations of existing scholarship on the subject, the study calls into question the suitability of "Väterliteratur" as a concept in literary history and proposes alternative approaches to the works the term encompasses.