Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagining
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Authors
Hobson, Thomas
Modi, Kaajal
Editors
Bown, Alfie
Bristow, Dan
Publication Date
2019-09-01Journal Title
Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production
ISBN
978-1-950192-44-1
Publisher
Punctum Books
Pages
327-352
Type
Book chapter
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Hobson, T., & Modi, K. (2019). Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagining. In Bown, Alfie. Punctum Books, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production. [Book chapter]. https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0255.1.00
Abstract
This is a study in two parts. Firstly, we engage with the concept of the “sociotechnical imaginary,” bringing it to bear on the future as imagined of Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) — an online meme that gained currency around the same time as the rise of Corbynism. Secondly, we look to a second articulation of luxury communism, Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, and the manner in which it, both substantively and materially, acts to “queer” the imaginative space of FALC. By doing so, this chapter offers a tentative and exploratory investigation of the following:
1. “Imaginaries” as useful conceptual frameworks for studying online memes, and;
2. The usefulness of these as a starting or staging point for collectively imagined futures.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0255.1.00
This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.83094
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