[Air-L] Retro technologies and memes

Jodi Sperber jsperber at brandeis.edu
Thu Nov 14 08:25:23 PST 2013


On the very non academic side, the artist/writer behind Hyperbole and a
Half (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/), Allie Brosh, uses MS paint
to create her comics. (Sidenote: it's a great comic. Highly recommended.)
She uses this for both
comedic<http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html>and
serious<http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html>purposes.
Her comic describing her struggle with depression is one of the
more accessible and clear descriptions I've seen. One particular drawing
has become a meme. See here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-all-the-y

She recently opened a reddit thread that may contain useful commentary, or
a place for you to pose the same question. (
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ozt33/i_am_allie_brosh_the_drawwriter_of_hyperbole_and/
).

Best,
Jodi.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Pask-Hughes, Alexander <
a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure Nathan Jurgenson and others have commented about this on the
> Cyborgology blog (http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/).
>
> I'd also second the suggestion of Simon Reynolds' Retromania - with the
> addition of the various commentaries about his book. More generally, I'd be
> surprised if this hasn't been discussed much more widely in the context of
> music subcultures - which is what Reynolds' book mainly concentrates upon
> (the use of early synthesisers in current electronic music, the widespread
> practice in heavy metal, punk and 'indie' circles of releasing vinyl, etc.
> etc.)
>
>
> Alexander David Pask-Hughes
>
> PhD student
> Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis
>
> Department of Linguistics and English Language
> Lancaster University
>
> E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk
> Twitter: @adpaskhughes
>
> ________________________________________
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> on behalf of Deller, Ruth A [R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk]
> Sent: 14 November 2013 12:55
> To: 'Air-L at listserv.aoir.org'
> Subject: [Air-L] Retro technologies and memes
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm writing a piece that involves discussion of the use of MS Paint within
> a particular web culture and I was wondering if anyone could point me in
> the direction of articles (whether 'academic' or not) on the trend within
> web cultures, particularly meme cultures, to deliberately reference
> 'primitive' or 'retro'-technologies such as Paint? I'm not just interested
> for this article - we're delivering new modules looking at media
> technologies soon so any articles about retro cultures in terms of
> referencing and reusing older technologies would be interesting.
>
> Ruth Deller
> Principal Lecturer in Media
> Room 9210 Cantor Building, Shefield Hallam University, UK
> r.a.deller at shu.ac.uk<mailto:r.a.deller at shu.ac.uk>,
> http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk<http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk/>, @ruthdeller<
> http://www.twitter.com/ruthdeller>
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