Open School: Myra Åhbeck Öhrman – Irony Poisoned – Aesthetics, Affect, and Morality in the Age of Meme Culture

Lecture
Date and time
3 December 2025 at 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Place and route

Svarta havet
Konstfack, LM Ericssons väg 14, Stockholm (Look at a map)
Underground station: Telefonplan




Aesthetics, Affect, and Morality in the Age of Meme Culture

We live in a visual world where jokes have replaced dialogue. Emotion has become prime political currency, and irony our way to endure - and to hold each other at a distance. When everything is "for the lulz", what's left for us to believe in?




Contact
Patrick Laceypatrick.lacey@konstfack.se 0703611868


Organizer
Master's programme in Visual Communication

Updated: 27 November 2025
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