In a second piece with Geert Lovink, Marc Tuters of OILab discusses the use of memes in conversation with Walter Benjamin’s theory of dialectical images. In doing so, it attempts to develop how memes can be understood as a continuation of Benjamin’s mention of ‘genuine images in language’, with the objective “to contemplate this seemingly […]

Marc Tuters of OILab was recently interviewed by the Dutch kids magazine 7Days, focusing on educational articles for teenagers. Tuters touched on the definition of memes, and their poitical usage. Read the article (in Dutch) below.

The tech-blog The Next Web republished our article on the (mis)uses of the Deus Vult meme. If you haven’t already – there’s two places to read it now: How the ‘Deus Vult’ gaming meme turned far-right on The Next Web ‘Deus Vult!’: Tracing the Many (Mis)uses of a Meme on OILab

Marc Tuters of OILab co-authored a piece with Geert Lovink on non.copyriot.com. In the light of  the discovery that memes can “express tensions that can’t be spoken in the political correct vocabulary of the mainstream media”, Tuters and Lovink provoke the reader to “consider memes in relation to the left’s enduring question of how to […]

Marc Tuters was recently interviewed at transmediale 2018 by the German Radio Eins, discussing Internet memes, the Deep Vernacular Web and the workshop OILab hosted at transmediale. Click here to go to the Radio Eins website. Or listen to the interview here:

Polandball is of Reddit: How r/polandball Transcends Memes through Carefully Curated Geopolitical Satire Sal Hagen recently published a longform essay on the Longform website of the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network cultures. It discusses r/polandball: a peculiar subreddit devoted to the creation of comics mocking geopolitical events and national stereotypes. These Polandball comics originated on the […]