A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga! - Softcover

Evnine, Simon J

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798987415702

Publisher: Tell It Slant Press, 2023

Synopsis

A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga! is an entirely original kind of work. It takes the form of commentaries on memes made with the image of Batman slapping Robin. The commentaries are written as if they were not authored by the same person who made the memes, allowing the author to consider himself and his work from the outside. The book defies genre by mixing discussions of philosophy, psychoanalysis, Judaism, language, and representation with self-writing and autotheory. These are juxtaposed like the items in a cabinet of curiosities or topics in an analytic patient’s free association. Both pre-modern and post-modern in its inspiration, it is cerebral, playful, social, and intensely personal. It contains philosophy, including original philosophical research, but also explores new ways of doing and thinking about philosophy.

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About the Author

Simon Evnine is a professor of philosophy at the University of Miami, in Florida, USA. Besides working on Batman memes, he is interested in social ontology and the philosophy of language. You can visit his website, simonevnine.com, to find information on his previous books and papers, among other things.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tell It Slant Press
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 13: 9798987415702
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304