http://cylegage.com/me/2009/04/b-on-an-iphone-and-in-a-gallery/ lol wut Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:22:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://cylegage.com/me/2009/04/b-on-an-iphone-and-in-a-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-60 education: discharges — fuck advocacy Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:33:40 +0000 http://cylegage.com/me/?p=15#comment-60 [...] don’t get hung up on this unless it excites you. I get all kinds of hot and bothered by 4chan in an art gallery. Really I just want you to enjoy some funny shit on the [...] [...] don’t get hung up on this unless it excites you. I get all kinds of hot and bothered by 4chan in an art gallery. Really I just want you to enjoy some funny shit on the [...]

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]]> http://cylegage.com/me/2009/04/b-on-an-iphone-and-in-a-gallery/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Andrew Fuckin Lovley Sun, 17 May 2009 15:58:23 +0000 http://cylegage.com/me/?p=15#comment-8 Hey Cyle I find this project deeply interesting, especially the memetics aspect. Memes presumably need hosts that are ready to bear & share them, and I wonder just what proportion of society finds humor in things like goatse (a proud minority!). You make a good point that there are big shifts in censorship and cultural norms, but perhaps there will always exist a realm for the unthinkable and other taboo violating memes, only seeing light in liminal places such as 4chan, Totse, and other corners of the internet. Until now these kinds of memes could only transmit through whispers but today the internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for meme transmission like a meme pandemic. No matter what the transmission will be regulated by the proportion of people willing to host, although maybe ideas of what is palatable will be in constant flux due to the moral experimentation boiling up from below. Another thing to ponder over is human disgust. It appears that there are things that universally disgusting to people all over the world, suggesting that they're embedded in human nature through the evolutionary process. Although nature can succumb to nurture, and through repeated exposure people can become desensitized to the shit, rendering it morally benign. In the end I think that no matter what the norms become, there'll always be the unorthodox pushing the envolope, creating a stir like a wave-machine... And I'm fuckin happy to witness it all as it happens. And from the sounds of it, places like 4chan is a great place to do it. The image scrubber is a great idea, what an awesome way to thrust the undergound into the mainstream. If there's any way at all that I could collaborate with you in terms of the anthropological part of the project, please let me know! Hey Cyle I find this project deeply interesting, especially the memetics aspect. Memes presumably need hosts that are ready to bear & share them, and I wonder just what proportion of society finds humor in things like goatse (a proud minority!). You make a good point that there are big shifts in censorship and cultural norms, but perhaps there will always exist a realm for the unthinkable and other taboo violating memes, only seeing light in liminal places such as 4chan, Totse, and other corners of the internet. Until now these kinds of memes could only transmit through whispers but today the internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for meme transmission like a meme pandemic. No matter what the transmission will be regulated by the proportion of people willing to host, although maybe ideas of what is palatable will be in constant flux due to the moral experimentation boiling up from below. Another thing to ponder over is human disgust. It appears that there are things that universally disgusting to people all over the world, suggesting that they’re embedded in human nature through the evolutionary process. Although nature can succumb to nurture, and through repeated exposure people can become desensitized to the shit, rendering it morally benign. In the end I think that no matter what the norms become, there’ll always be the unorthodox pushing the envolope, creating a stir like a wave-machine… And I’m fuckin happy to witness it all as it happens. And from the sounds of it, places like 4chan is a great place to do it. The image scrubber is a great idea, what an awesome way to thrust the undergound into the mainstream. If there’s any way at all that I could collaborate with you in terms of the anthropological part of the project, please let me know!

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