web01.fireside.fm Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:16:53 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Memes” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/memes Tue, 09 Mar 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. en-us episodic Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory Geoff Shullenberger Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. no critical theory, conspiracy theory, outsider intellectuals, outsiders, the outside Geoff Shullenberger gshullenb@gmail.com The Digital Dionysian with Chris Gabriel https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/digital-dionysian 8c09f457-00ae-4ae0-a3ef-92d485547be6 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, on why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. 58:00 no Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, joins Outsider Theory to discuss why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. We also discuss how the internet traps Dionysian energies in an Apollinian dreamworld; why Burroughs's word virus is a better model than Dawkinsian memetics for understanding the meme form; what the most revealing memetic formations of the present are; and why we need mythmaking more than therapy. MemeAnalysis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA Effluvia: https://goddisk.substack.com/ Meme Intelligence Agency: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GPyOdF5f4Ja02lIq407zl?si=D6ticZDvSdS4Ennv95pNFg Aeonic Comics: https://www.instagram.com/aeoniccomics/ memes, the internet, dionysian, apollinian, myth, collective unconscious, Nietzsche, Jung, Freud, Burroughs Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, joins Outsider Theory to discuss why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. We also discuss how the internet traps Dionysian energies in an Apollinian dreamworld; why Burroughs's word virus is a better model than Dawkinsian memetics for understanding the meme form; what the most revealing memetic formations of the present are; and why we need mythmaking more than therapy.

MemeAnalysis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA

Effluvia: https://goddisk.substack.com/

Meme Intelligence Agency: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GPyOdF5f4Ja02lIq407zl?si=D6ticZDvSdS4Ennv95pNFg

Aeonic Comics: https://www.instagram.com/aeoniccomics/

]]> Chris Gabriel, creator of the MemeAnalysis Youtube channel, joins Outsider Theory to discuss why memes are now the royal road to the collective unconscious. We also discuss how the internet traps Dionysian energies in an Apollinian dreamworld; why Burroughs's word virus is a better model than Dawkinsian memetics for understanding the meme form; what the most revealing memetic formations of the present are; and why we need mythmaking more than therapy.

MemeAnalysis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA

Effluvia: https://goddisk.substack.com/

Meme Intelligence Agency: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GPyOdF5f4Ja02lIq407zl?si=D6ticZDvSdS4Ennv95pNFg

Aeonic Comics: https://www.instagram.com/aeoniccomics/

]]> Meming Theory and Theorizing Memes with Beyond Woke and Problematic https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/theory-memes 78132611-ba75-499e-83b8-740c1912fc97 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger The popular dissemination of theory now occurs primarily in the form of the meme. One of the premier posters in the "theorygram" space joins me to theorize the theory meme. 58:57 no In recent years, memes have risen to prominence as a medium for witty, irreverent, surreal engagement with the canon of High Theory. At the speed of the internet, memes now circulate the ideas of thinkers from Deleuze to Dugin, from Land to DeLanda, in humorous and fragmentary forms, instantiating in their mode of dissemination the sorts of positive feedback loops, rhizomatic growth, and strata hopping that some such thinkers have theorized. Beyond Woke and Problematic, a premier poster in the "theorygram" space, joins Outsider Theory to survey the dramatic ascent of the theory meme in the new millennium and explore the relationship of this popular form to the ideas it purveys. With reference to François Cusset's "French Theory," we also compare the meme to earlier vehicles of pop theory. Follow Beyond Woke and Problematic: https://linktr.ee/beyondwokeand_problematic François Cusset, French Theory: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/french-theory theory, memes, structuralism, Gilles Deleuze, Manuel deLanda, Nick Land, Reza Negarastani In recent years, memes have risen to prominence as a medium for witty, irreverent, surreal engagement with the canon of High Theory. At the speed of the internet, memes now circulate the ideas of thinkers from Deleuze to Dugin, from Land to DeLanda, in humorous and fragmentary forms, instantiating in their mode of dissemination the sorts of positive feedback loops, rhizomatic growth, and strata hopping that some such thinkers have theorized. Beyond Woke and Problematic, a premier poster in the "theorygram" space, joins Outsider Theory to survey the dramatic ascent of the theory meme in the new millennium and explore the relationship of this popular form to the ideas it purveys. With reference to François Cusset's "French Theory," we also compare the meme to earlier vehicles of pop theory.

Follow Beyond Woke and Problematic: https://linktr.ee/beyond_woke_and_problematic

François Cusset, French Theory: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/french-theory

]]> In recent years, memes have risen to prominence as a medium for witty, irreverent, surreal engagement with the canon of High Theory. At the speed of the internet, memes now circulate the ideas of thinkers from Deleuze to Dugin, from Land to DeLanda, in humorous and fragmentary forms, instantiating in their mode of dissemination the sorts of positive feedback loops, rhizomatic growth, and strata hopping that some such thinkers have theorized. Beyond Woke and Problematic, a premier poster in the "theorygram" space, joins Outsider Theory to survey the dramatic ascent of the theory meme in the new millennium and explore the relationship of this popular form to the ideas it purveys. With reference to François Cusset's "French Theory," we also compare the meme to earlier vehicles of pop theory.

Follow Beyond Woke and Problematic: https://linktr.ee/beyond_woke_and_problematic

François Cusset, French Theory: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/french-theory

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