Gian Luigi’s Reviews > Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? Memes, Design and Politics > Status Update

-"Jokes are a continuation of politics by other memes."

-"Occupy Wall Street was, in its early stages, coordinated via Pastebin, an online text tool existing since 2002, desiged to post snippets of code among computer programmers. Rather than specifically being catered to or designed for protest, Pastebin was appropriated for that goal – it became 'the ultimate hacker hangout.' "

-"the memetic front line does not need a single logo"

-"the inessential taking some kind of center stage."

-"it appears that a proletariat of information workers "smuggles" the in-joke"

-"the neoliberal gulag of precarity."

-"open secrets of fecundity"