![]() ![]() Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes it argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, The Memeing of Mark Fisher aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. In the aftermath, this book revisits the main Frankfurt School theorists, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin and Marcuse, who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. This depression was brought about not just by Covid isolation, but by the digital economy, fueled by social media and the meme. ![]() We witnessed a depression, not economically speaking, but in the psychological sense: A clinical depression of and by society itself. Spring 2020 to 2021 was the year that did not take place. The Frankfurt School meets Fisher in this critique of capitalism incorporating memes, mental illness and psychedelia into a proposed counterculture. ![]()
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