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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines several prominent memes that have circulated on Right-wing social media during the Covid-19 pandemic. The memes coordinate what I describe as a mode of interpassive humor, which positions those who...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPlatform Psychoanalysis: What Does the Algorithm Want? So many of us today are more than aware of the common criticisms of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google, SnapChat, YouTube, and TikTok. Who among...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMuch of the critical discourse on social media misidentifies its problematic features as bugs, or problems to solve. Supposed solutions to these problems tend to focus on individual actions. We should delete the apps,...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis essay reads fictional and non-fictional accounts of digital stalking as signals of larger changes in intersubjectivity itself caused by Google. Most social media platforms trap users in imaginary relations, in which...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedExploring the development of algorithms in Lacanian theory, specifically the "R schema" in the 1950s, I argue that psychoanalysis, read through contemporary debates about the "algorithmic cult" of Netflix and other...