Reactjis need better theorizing as a post-verbal media phenomenon. All I can find is lazy listicles like this. google.com/amp/s/www.vox.
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I have notes on postverbal human condition, but don’t feel like writing it up as a post.
Hmm. Is that ironic or merely consistent. 🤔
The number of things for which there are no German words doubles every 18 months.
Most of the popular reaction gifs have no emotion-word names.
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The only one I can label is the Nathan Fillion one. This is the emotion of speechlessness. Now this I’m sure is ironic for my thesis.
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We could either get into an arms race with the memetic environment and try to name everything new, or give up and be postverbal.
Like what do you even call this? “Yessss welcome to crazytown”? I can’t think of a single word for it. Maybe neologism like crazyfirmation?
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Ok this is genius meta-memeing. Take note and theorize this @aaronzlewis twitter.com/neilshyminsky/…
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Hell, one of the better touchstones we seem to have for discussing it is Darmok.
And I have a strong sentimental fondness for TNG but that's just sad.
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I mean a bunch of humanities academic disciplines spent much of the 20th century writing about this topic. Semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism all have useful tools and language here.
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I feel like quite a bit of affect theory could be used to think about this? It's not direct, but definitely applies.




