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

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?