The term “meme” — coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene— means a conceptual unit of cultural transmission. A story about a monster, told from one person to another, might be a meme. But something different seems at play in the Slenderman case. The meme is the monster, burstin...
Although “mapping tunnels in Gaza right now is not going to happen,” the tunnels have become the elusive map of power in the Gaza Strip, a “big reveal” that has become the focus of the war, revealing the terror of porous borders that were echoed by the discovery of five Hezbollah t...
Back when Obama energized the convention by reassuring the nation as well as delegates who had assembled in Chicago that, despite the evidence of infographics, the fissures of a fractured body politic that many maps continued to project were not destined to divide the nation: “We’re not red ...
In both of the scenarios I describe above, it’s not likely I will attend these classes in the long term. Because I am already in love with the HIIT style classes, I will continue looking for the right fit for me and I will likely continue practicing and enjoying the benefits of HIIT-...
Felix: So yeah, tell us a bit more about The Meme Bible. How did you come up with this idea? Jason: Well, you know, before doing e-commerce I was an influencer on social media so I started running these large pages to entertain people with internet memes. I realized that there’s ...
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME continues the charming “teen comedy, but in the Marvel Universe” vibe of 2017’sSPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, but instead of situating it on the outskirts of the MCU it’s more in the middle this time. It’s pretty much an epilogue to the whole story that culmina...
s directors into throwing in more aerial shots than are called for — and the performances are surprisingly good. I remain on the fence about Stewart as an actor, but she is a star and I think she acquits herself well here as Lou. O’Brian is the body without the brains, especially ...
So what I did was in the beginning doing a lot of research onto what was trending throughout the year. The idea of the book is to memorize 2016 by using the things that were iconic. So I had to, you know, look back through different sources like people’s blogs, Reddit, the meme ...
Green Goblin and Dr. Octopus were scientific geniuses turned into monsters and villains by their own dangerous experiments. Flint Marko is a regular joe who becomes Sandman by coincidence – he climbs over a fence running from the cops and happens to fall into a pit where a super-collider exp...
“She’s going through what 15-year-olds go through. I went through all that. I know that’s whenever my life turned all the way worse. It started bringing up all these emotions of me being right there on that fence.”Nahmias jacket, RCSLA t-shirt, Jason of Beverly Hills necklace, ...