• speed of internet content churn
• that bit in the film DEMOLITION MAN where the future-people chair-dance and sing along to old advertising jingles
• linkrot and image hosting failures destroying old content
• leads to archiving of old memes
• (had to explain “one does not simply” meme to someone last night)
• memes as internet folk art
• memes as fading, timebound art
• sudden pre-sleep vision of memes as folk songs, requiring Alan Lomaxes or Cecil Sharps to go out into the field to collect them before they vanish from memory
• (Alan Lomax archive)
• Science Fiction Condition: in sf, jingles replaced pop music, but we already create archives of internet memes like they were vanishing folk songs
• forthcoming: British Museum “bukkit” exhibition, “one does not simply walk into Tesco” ads, flag replaced by Courage Wolf
• all this made more sense in my head right before I went to sleep but to hell with it

Reading: IN THE DUST OF THIS PLANET, Eugene Thacker (UK) (US)