Memeverse

When it comes to the memeverse, the academy isn’t playing. This is serious business. […] In fact, some scholar somewhere, as we speak, is probably ginning up a doctoral dissertation on Goatse (a pioneer of Internet meme culture who is famous for planting his own two hands in the deep recesses of his derriere).

Like the dream state, the memeverse has a way of assembling familiar colors, shapes, and forms from the reality we more consciously occupy; but the images it conjures and captures (and captions) are unstable — they change shape, or shift premise, or take off on a tangent and turn into something else.