Reactjis need better theorizing as a post-verbal media phenomenon. All I can find is lazy listicles like this.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/2017/6/15/15804082/greatest-reaction-gifs-supa-hot-fire-blinking-white-guy …
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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.4 replies 0 retweets 23 likesShow this thread -
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Spidey sense that gendlin is the best source to jump off. Memes codify the preverbalised (no German word for it) straight into the postverbal via the imagistic. Often interpersonal situational reactionhttps://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1193671323437981704 …
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"Fire Buddha" Rival Voices (76/284 olympic squats) @nosilvervReplying to @WilliamAEdenEach meme is a culturally shared felt-sense that both makes you feel unique in understanding it and connected in knowing that that understanding is shared (by the creator + the people sharing it). Perfect in-group out-group relation nirvana.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Good tack but not the one I’m interested in
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