Martin Heidegger’s existential philosophy, particularly the concepts of Dasein and Zuhandenheit (readiness-to-hand), offers a framework for understanding Internet memes as digital tools for navigating shared reality, according to Wikipedia. Memes function as "ready-to-hand" instruments for instant communication, while surreal or "deep-fried" memes exemplify Vorhandenheit (presence-at-hand) by breaking down communication to expose the artificiality of digital existence, as described in Wikipedia. Furthermore, memes embody Heidegger’s concept of Das Man ("the They") through conformist repetition while allowing for ironic subversion of that conformity. Ultimately, these digital artifacts serve as a coping mechanism for the alienation and "standing reserve" of a technologically mediated world, notes Wikipedia. More information on Heidegger and memes can be found at Wikipedia.
>metaliptic shitposting to escape the human security system through verminoided intersticesOr some shit.
>>25309569>surreal or "deep-fried" memes exemplify Vorhandenheit (presence-at-hand) by breaking down communication to expose the artificiality of digital existencei see the argument but i'm not sure anyone actually experiences any memes in this way, no matter how surreal. the internet isn't a world in a heideggerian sense imo, it brings things onto our screens but it doesn't 'disclose' them, it doesn't create a 'clearing' where those things can stand in a meaningful light; and because it's not a world, it's not possible for any meme to destabilise it in the way, e.g., modernist art did the world of the 1920s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_(predicate_logic)
>>25309594surely the hope expressed in the word 'escape' refers to something nobler than dissolving ourselves into swarms of meaningless data and replacing our culture with memes. constructing a line of flight is a very delicate operation, deleuze and guattari constantly emphasise - but land hated all their words of caution and restraint.people have to remember that when land was getting all giddy about the intensities set loose by cyberculture, he was a highly educated guy who had the opportunity to cultivate his sensibility in pre-internet days; for people actually raised in cyberculture - people with no imagination, with very little capacity for deep affective response - the internet is deadly boring. but tragically they don't realise how bored they are, how paltry their substitute culture is, because they can't imagine anything different.
>>25309569doesnt he hide eggs
>>25309594fpbp kek
Dasein as a philosophical concept cones from Hegel it's just it is translated as determinate [differentiated] being whereas in Heidegger it is left untranslated. Zuhandenheit just means Hegel's Unmittelbarkeit
