Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This thesis project explores the phenomenological qualities of the internet; asking, since the internet is difficult to grasp, what other modes of investigation might we have available? Using an investigative framework set forth by Jack Halberstam, this thesis declines to come to knowledge solely through understanding the formal, the structural, the highly visible and mainstream. The literature that I have gathered provides a range of modes for interrogating the simultaneously central and inconsequential subject of my thesis itself: the potato. Juxtaposing the physical, political and material conditions of the potato the internet’s least academic mode of knowing: the meme. Analyzing the potato alongside the meme allows us to discuss the role of the mundane among the proposed modes of investigation.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Illustration & Visual Culture
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Graduate School of Art
- Year dc:date.available
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Evers, Candice
Subjects
dc:subject × 23- potato
- meme
- internet
- platforms
- information economy
- attention economy
- American Material Culture
- American Popular Culture
- Art and Design
- Communication Technology and New Media
- Critical and Cultural Studies
- Illustration
- Infrastructure
- International Relations
- Mass Communication
- Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Other Film and Media Studies
- Political Theory
- Reading and Language
- Social Justice
- Social Media
- Speech and Rhetorical Studies
- Visual Studies
Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:openscholarship.wustl.edu:mfa_illustration-1012