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| joker society memes: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture Bradley E. Wiggins, 2019-02-25 Shared, posted, tweeted, commented upon, and discussed online as well as off-line, internet memes represent a new genre of online communication, and an understanding of their production, dissemination, and implications in the real world enables an improved ability to navigate digital culture. This book explores cases of cultural, economic, and political critique levied by the purposeful production and consumption of internet memes. Often images, animated GIFs, or videos are remixed in such a way to incorporate intertextual references, quite frequently to popular culture, alongside a joke or critique of some aspect of the human experience. Ideology, semiotics, and intertextuality coalesce in the book’s argument that internet memes represent a new form of meaning-making, and the rapidity by which they are produced and spread underscores their importance. |
| joker society memes: Meme Wars Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, Brian Friedberg, 2022-09-20 A groundbreaking investigation into the digital underworld, where far-right operatives wage wars against mainstream America, from a masterful trio of experts in media and tech. Memes have long been dismissed as inside jokes with no political importance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Memes are bedrock to the strategy of conspiracists such as Alex Jones, provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos, white nationalists like Nick Fuentes, and tacticians like Roger Stone. While the media and most politicians struggle to harness the organizing power of the internet, the “redpill right” weaponizes memes, pushing conspiracy theories and disinformation into the mainstream to drag people down the rabbit hole. These meme wars stir strong emotions, deepen partisanship, and get people off their keyboards and into the streets--and the steps of the US Capitol. Meme Wars is the first major account of how “Stop the Steal” went from online to real life, from the wires to the weeds. Leading media expert Joan Donovan, PhD, veteran tech journalist Emily Dreyfuss, and cultural ethnographer Brian Friedberg pull back the curtain on the digital war rooms in which a vast collection of antiesablishmentarians bond over hatred of liberal government and media. Together as a motley reactionary army, they use memes and social media to seek out new recruits, spread ideologies, and remake America according to their desires. A political thriller with the substance of a rigorous history, Meme Wars is the astonishing story of how extremists are yanking our culture and politics to the right. And it's a warning that if we fail to recognize these powerful undercurrents, the great meme war for the soul of America will soon be won. |
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| joker society memes: The Joker Robert Moses Peaslee, Robert G. Weiner, 2015-02-26 Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to provide a comprehensive study of this villain, illustrating why the Joker appears so relevant to audiences today. Batman's foe has cropped up in thousands of comics, numerous animated series, and three major blockbuster feature films since 1966. Actually, the Joker debuted in DC comics Batman 1 (1940) as the typical gangster, but the character evolved steadily into one of the most ominous in the history of sequential art. Batman and the Joker almost seemed to define each other as opposites, hero and nemesis, in a kind of psychological duality. Scholars from a wide array of disciplines look at the Joker through the lens of feature films, video games, comics, politics, magic and mysticism, psychology, animation, television, performance studies, and philosophy. As the first volume that examines the Joker as complex cultural and cross-media phenomenon, this collection adds to our understanding of the role comic book and cinematic villains play in the world and the ways various media affect their interpretation. Connecting the Clown Prince of Crime to bodies of thought as divergent as Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, contributors demonstrate the frightening ways in which we get the monsters we need. |
| joker society memes: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told DC Comics, Inc, 1989-01-01 Selected stories from the Batman comic book feature the Joker's fiendishly clever crimes |
| joker society memes: Breaking Down Joker Sean Redmond, 2021-12-30 Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that was simultaneously both celebrated and derided, and which arrived at a time of unprecedented social malaise. The collection breaks down Joker to explore its aesthetic and ideological representations within the social and cultural context in which it was released. An international team of authors explore Joker’s sightlines and subtexts, the affective relationships, corrosive ideologies, and damning, if ambivalent, messages of this film. The chapters address such themes as white masculinity, identity and perversion, social class and mobility, urban loneliness, movement and music, and questions of reception and activism. With contributions from scholars from screen studies, theatre and performance studies, psychology and psychoanalysis, geography, cultural studies, and sociology, this fully interdisciplinary collection offers a uniquely multiple operational cross-examination of this pivotal film text and will be of great importance to scholars, students, and researchers in these areas. |
| joker society memes: Batman: White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn Katana Collins, 2021-06-29 Two years after the events of Batman: Curse of the White Knight, Azrael has wiped out criminals in Gotham, Jack Napier (formerly The Joker) is dead, Bruce Wayne (Batman) is in prison, and Harley Quinn is adjusting to life as a single mother, raising the twins she had with Jack. But as new villains arise, Harley is forced to dance with madness once again and confront her own past with The Joker and Batman while helping the Gotham City police and an eager young FBI agent uncover the truth behind a series of gruesome murders. This collection also features a chapter from Harley Quinn’s newest digital-first series, Harley Quinn Black + White + Red, told in a traditional black-and-white format with the color red uniquely shaping Harley Quinn’s story. Collection includes Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn #1-6 and a story from Harley Quinn Black + White + Red Digital Chapter 6. |
| joker society memes: Emotions and Loneliness in a Networked Society Bianca Fox, 2019-11-08 Loneliness affects quality of life, life satisfaction, and well-being, and it is associated with various health problems, both somatic and mental. This book takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of loneliness, identifying and bridging the gaps in academic research on loneliness, and creating new research pathways. Focusing in particular on loneliness in the context of new and emergent communication technologies, it provides a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and will contribute to the re-evaluation of the way we understand and research this contemporary global phenomenon. |
| joker society memes: The Joker Robert Moses Peaslee, Robert G. Weiner, 2015 Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to provide a comprehensive study of this villain, illustrating why the Joker appears so relevant to audiences today. Batman's foe has cropped up in thousands of comics, numerous animated series, and three major blockbuster feature films since 1966. Actually, the Joker debuted in DC comics Batman 1 (1940) as the typical gangster, but the character evolved steadily into one of the most ominous in the history of sequential art. Batman and the Joker almost seemed to define each other as opposites, hero and nemesis, in a kind of psychological duality. Scholars from a wide array of disciplines look at the Joker through the lens of feature films, video games, comics, politics, magic and mysticism, psychology, animation, television, performance studies, and philosophy. As the first volume that examines the Joker as complex cultural and cross-media phenomenon, this collection adds to our understanding of the role comic book and cinematic villains play in the world and the ways various media affect their interpretation. Connecting the Clown Prince of Crime to bodies of thought as divergent as Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, contributors demonstrate the frightening ways in which we get the monsters we need. |
| joker society memes: Batman and the Joker Chris Richardson, 2020-10-27 This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture. Thematic chapters investigate how artists, writers, and fans engage with, challenge, and interpret gendered and sexual representations by focusing on one of the most popular and heated fictional rivalries ever inked: that of Batman and the Joker. The monograph provides critical insights into ways queer reading practices can open new forms of understanding that have generally remained implicit and unexplored in mainstream comics studies. This accessible and interdisciplinary approach to the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime engages diverse fields of scholarship such as Comics Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Psychoanalysis, Media Studies, and Queer Theory. |
| joker society memes: Planet Funny Ken Jennings, 2019-07-09 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes. Where once society’s most coveted trait might have been strength or intelligence or honor, today, in a clear sign of evolution sliding off the trails, it is being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: Super Bowl commercials don’t try to sell you anymore; they try to make you laugh. Airline safety tutorials—those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning—have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. Thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day—and many of them even get popular enough online to go pro and take over TV. In his “smartly structured, soundly argued, and yes—pretty darn funny” (Booklist, starred review) Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means—or doesn’t—to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. “Fascinating, entertaining and—I’m being dead serious here—important” (A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically), Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor. |
| joker society memes: Post Memes Dan Bristow, Alfie Bown, 2019 Art-form, send-up, farce, ironic disarticulation, pastiche, propaganda, trololololol, mode of critique, mode of production, means of politicisation, even of subjectivation - memes are the inner currency of the internet's circulatory system. Independent of any one set value, memes are famously the mode of conveyance for the alt-right, the irony left, and the apoliticos alike, and they are impervious to many economic valuations: the attempts made in co-opting their discourse in advertising and big business have made little headway, and have usually been derailed by retaliative meming. POST MEMES: SEIZING THE MEMES OF PRODUCTION takes advantage of the meme's subversive adaptability and ripeness for a focused, in-depth study. Pulling together the interrogative forces of a raft of thinkers at the forefront of tech theory and media dissection, this collection of essays paves a way to articulating the semiotic fabric of the early 21st century's most prevalent means of content posting, and aims at the very seizing of the memes of production for the imagining and creation of new political horizons. With contributions from Scott and McKenzie Wark, Patricia Reed, Jay Owens, Thomas Hobson and Kaajal Modi, Dominic Pettman, Bogna M. Konior, and Eric Wilson, among others, this essay volume offers the freshest approaches available in the field of memes studies and inaugurates a new kind of writing about the newest manifestations of the written online. The book aims to become the go-to resource for all students and scholars of memes, and will be of the utmost interest to anyone interested in the internet's most viral phenomenon. ABOUT THE EDITORS ALFIE BOWN is the author of several books including The Playstation Dreamworld (Polity, 2017) and In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is also a journalist for the Guardian, the Paris Review, and other outlets. DAN BRISTOW is a recovering academic, a bookseller, and author of Joyce and Lacan: Reading, Writing, and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2016) and 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory (Palgrave, 2017). He is also the co-creator with Alfie Bown of Everyday Analysis, now based at New Socialist magazine. |
| joker society memes: Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society Punziano, Gabriella, Delli Paoli, Angela, 2021-09-03 Doing research is an ever-changing challenge for social scientists. This challenge is harder than ever today as current societies are changing quickly and in many, sometimes conflicting, directions. Social phenomena, personal interactions, and formal and informal relationships are becoming more borderless and disconnected from the anchors of the offline “reality.” These dynamics are heavily marking our time and are suggesting evolutionary challenges in the ways we know, interpret, and analyze the world. Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) is being incorporated into every aspect of daily life, and social life has been deeply penetrated by the internet. This is due to recent technological developments that increase the scope and range of online social spaces and the forms and time of participation such as Web 2.0, which widened the opportunities for user-generated content, the emergence of an “internet of things,” and of ubiquitous mobile devices that make it possible to always be connected. This implies an adjustment to epistemological and methodological stances for conducting social research and an adaption of traditional social research methods to the specificities of online interactions in the digital society. The Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society covers the different strands of methods most affected by the change in a digital society and develops a broader theoretical reflection on the future of social research in its challenge to always be fitting, suitable, adaptable, and pertinent to the society to be studied. The chapters are geared towards unlocking the future frontiers and potential for social research in the digital society. They include theoretical, epistemological, and ontological reflections about the digital research methods as well as innovative methods and tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data. This book is ideal for social scientists, practitioners, librarians, researchers, academicians, and students interested in social research methodology and its developments in the digital scenario. |
| joker society memes: Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture Lyndon Way, 2020-12-16 Supporting you with varied features throughout, this intriguing new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field. |
| joker society memes: Do You Mind If I Cancel? Gary Janetti, 2019 Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart.--Kevin Kwan Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey... meet your new friend Gary Janetti. Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills to the page in a hilarious, and poignant book chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life. Gary spends his twenties in New York, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phoneallthe time, and fantasizes, as we all do, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says, These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me. Original, brazen, and laugh out loud funny,Do You Mind if I Cancel? is something not to be missed. |
| joker society memes: Cyber-Marx Nick Dyer-Witheford, 1999 In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another. Cutting through the smokescreen of high-tech propaganda, Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, autonomist Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth. |
| joker society memes: Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, 2010-08-11 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. |
| joker society memes: Batman: Three Jokers (2020-2020) #3 Geoff Johns, 2020-10-27 The final chapter of the most terrifying and personal Batman mystery is here! Still reeling from their last encounter with the three Jokers, Batman, Batgirl, and Red Hood discover the terrible truth about the Three Jokers’ plot. Will the caped crusaders have the strength needed to put an end to the maniacal menaces’ master plan once and for all, or will it be lights out for good? You won’t want to miss the stunning conclusion of Batman: Three Jokers as it completes its trajectory as the ultimate examination of The Joker and his never-ending conflict with Batman.The final chapter of the most terrifying and personal Batman mystery is here! Still reeling from their last encounter with the three Jokers, Batman, Batgirl, and Red Hood discover the terrible truth about the Three Jokers’ plot. Will the caped crusaders have the strength needed to put an end to the maniacal menaces’ master plan once and for all, or will it be lights out for good? You won’t want to miss the stunning conclusion of Batman: Three Jokers as it completes its trajectory as the ultimate examination of The Joker and his never-ending conflict with Batman. |
| joker society memes: Injustice Tom Taylor, 2013 From the makers of Mortal Kombat comes the critically acclaimed prequel comic to the smash hit fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us! Things in the DC Universe have changed after Superman is tricked into destroying the one thing he loves the most. Now unwilling to let crime go unpunished, the heroes of our world must choose if they are with Superman or against him. But not every country will submit to his new world order and neither will Superman's greatest threat--Batman! |
| joker society memes: Black Panther Terence McSweeney, 2021-11-01 Named a Nonfiction Book Awards Gold Winner by the Nonfiction Authors Association Gold Winner of the 2022 eLit Book Award for Popular Culture Winner of a National Indie Excellence Award in the category of “Movies & TV” Book of the Year 2021 in African Studies awarded by CESTAF Winner of the 2022 Best Book Award in the category of “Performing Arts” Black Panther is one of the most financially successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. When it was released in 2018 it broke numerous records and resonated with audiences all around the world in ways that transcended the dimensions of the superhero film. In Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, author Terence McSweeney explores the film from a diverse range of perspectives, seeing it as not only a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to the discourse of both African and African American studies. McSweeney argues that Black Panther is one of the defining American films of the last decade and the most remarkable title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–). The MCU has become the largest film franchise in the history of the medium and has even shaped the contours of the contemporary blockbuster, but the narratives within it have almost exclusively perpetuated largely unambiguous fantasies of American heroism and exceptionalism. In contrast, Black Panther complicates this by engaging in an entirely different mythos in its portrayal of an African nation—never colonized by Europe—as the most powerful and technologically advanced in the world. McSweeney charts how and why Black Panther became a cultural phenomenon and also a battleground on which a war of meaning was waged at a very particular time in American history. |
| joker society memes: Legal Systems Very Different from Ours Peter Leeson, David Skarbek, David Friedman, 2019-01-09 This book looks at thirteen different legal systems, ranging from Imperial China to modern Amish: how they worked, what problems they faced, how they dealt with them. Some chapters deal with a single legal system, others with topics relevant to several, such as problems with law based on divine revelation or how systems work in which law enforcement is private and decentralized. The book's underlying assumption is that all human societies face the same problems, deal with them in an interesting variety of different ways, are all the work of grown-ups, hence should all be taken seriously. It ends with a chapter on features of past legal systems that a modern system might want to borrow. |
| joker society memes: El poder de los memes Bradley E. Wiggins, 2024-11-06 ¿Qué es un meme? ¿Cómo funciona y cuál es su verdadero impacto en las redes sociales? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que Bradley E. Wiggins se propone responder en El poder de los memes, donde analiza el modo en que este nuevo género de comunicación en línea se produce, difunde y viraliza. Entre el humor, la cultura pop, la crítica política e incluso el arte, los distintos estudios de caso revelan que los memes no solo aportan un nuevo sentido con cada remezcla, sino que además imponen una práctica discursiva que construye espacios de identidad. De esta manera, la ideología, la semiótica y la intertextualidad se conjugan en el análisis de Wiggins para abordar estos artefactos de la cultura digital participativa que integran nuestra vida cotidiana y la resignifican como un lenguaje en permanente mutación. |
| joker society memes: Tourette’s Syndrome, Stigma, and Society’s Jests Melina Aikaterini Malli, Rachel Forrester-Jones, 2025-05-14 This book explores the profound and multifaceted impact of stigma on individuals with Tourette’s syndrome. It critically examines how stigma, rooted in historical misconceptions continues to shape societal perceptions and attitudes, and marginalises those with the condition across education, employment, media, and interpersonal relationships. Drawing on personal narratives, Tourette’s Syndrome, Stigma, and Society’s Jests investigates how humour and media representations both reinforce and challenge societal stigma. It evaluates systemic barriers that maintain inequality and exclusion and confronts traditional medicalised views of Tourette’s syndrome. Significantly, it advocates for an intersectional approach that emphasises inclusivity, empowerment, and society’s accountability in addressing stigma and fostering change. By weaving together lived experiences with scholarly insights, the book challenges readers to rethink preconceived notions about Tourette’s syndrome and to consider the societal structures that impact the lives of those with the condition. Accessible yet grounded in academic research, this volume offers valuable insights for readers interested in disability studies or social justice. It aims to inspire dialogue, challenge stigma, and advocate for a future that prioritises the voices and experiences of individuals with Tourette’s syndrome. |
| joker society memes: DC Comics novels - Harley Quinn: Mad Love Paul Dini, 2019-09-10 The definitive story of Harley Quinn by her co-creator, Paul Dini, and Pat Cadigan, revealing the secrets of her history even as she seeks to kill Batman. When she was only seven years old, Harleen Quinzel witnessed her father being beaten up by thugs, and then arrested by the police. That night she ran away to the safest place she could think of: Coney Island amusement park. But there, pursued into the Funhouse by the men who brutalised her father, she beheld unimaginable horrors. Years later, Harleen has put her past behind her, and used her intelligence and ambition to escape her childhood of poverty with a career in psychiatry. Assigned to her first position at Arkham Hospital, she will discover, deep in the asylum, something dangerous and alluring, something quite unlike anything else she has ever known before: The Joker. Because why would you settle for love, when you could have MAD LOVE? From the moment that Harleen finds a rose on her desk, to the moment she dons her harlequin hat, this is the definitive story that chronicles the obsession, the burning desire, the manic laughter, and the birth of one of the most controversial and popular comic book supervillains ever created: Harley Quinn. Copyright © 2017 DC Comics. BATMAN, THE JOKER, HARLEY QUINN, SUICIDE SQUAD and all related characters and elements © & TM DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. |
| joker society memes: Corporate Cancel Culture and Brand Boycotts Angeline Close Scheinbaum, 2024-10-03 This topical book examines and tests the complexities of unintended consequences of social media that often impact brands and companies from both an economic and a reputational lens. This book introduces the term “corporate cancel culture,” highlighting the growing trend among customers to leverage social media to communicate their grievances with companies. This book reports challenges of social media platforms to brands and companies. The challenges addressed entail including social media trolls, the power of influencers, the dark web, cancel culture in sports due to political constraints, social media influencer livestreams, and misinformation. Written by a team of experts from North America, Europe, South America, and Asia, this book showcases real‐world expertise in marketing, branding, consumer psychology, economics, and communication. This book also considers solutions for brands and companies who need to address the dark side of social media by offering insights on fostering accountability among brands and business leaders and providing a roadmap to mitigate consumer resistance. Corporate Cancel Culture and Brand Boycotts: The Dark Side of Social Media for Brands is a must read for students of psychology, marketing, public relations, management, and social media. It will also be of interest to users of social media – both consumers and business/organizations. It is especially valuable for marketing/advertising professionals, social media professionals/influencers, and business executives. It is designed to be read alongside The Dark Side of Social Media: A Consumer Psychology Perspective. |
| joker society memes: Things That I Hear Avner Geller, 2019-09 |
| joker society memes: The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival Sir John Bagot Glubb, 1978-01-01 |
| joker society memes: The Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, 2017 Frank Miller, along with co-writer Brian Azarrello and artist John Romita Jr., revisit the gritty world of to the best-selling and genre-defining graphic novel, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, with this time telling prequel, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: THE LAST CRUSADE, The tale of Batman's last adventure before his retirement and eventual return years later. As the Joker is manically returned to Arkham Asylum, Bruce Wayne is struggling to train his sidekick and heir apparent, the new Robin, Jason Todd. While a new string of bizarre killing sprees involving Gotham City's elite take up Batman and Robin's attention, critics begin to question if the Dark Knight has a right to endanger the life of a child. What does night after night of danger and brutality do to a child? And what is the Joker planning? THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: THE LAST CRUSADE presents this prequel story to THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS in an oversized hardcover edition, along with the story's original plot. |
| joker society memes: Videogioco: femminile, plurale Fabrizia Malgieri, Fiorenzo Pilla, Tiziana Pirola, Lorena Rao, 2024-08-02 Videogioco: Femminile, Plurale esplora il significativo e costante contributo delle donne all'interno dell'industria videoludica, un contesto tradizionalmente dominato da una cultura nerd maschile, con la dichiarata intenzione di far emergere il valore connesso alla presenza e all'impatto del femminile, in senso esteso, sull'intero settore. Dalle pioniere degli albori tecnologici alle eroine digitali che sfidano gli stereotipi proponendo personaggi complessi e sfaccettati, passando per le streamer e le pro player, il testo getta una nuova luce su decenni di storia del videogioco, grazie a un'analisi delle dinamiche di genere legate al contesto e di come queste abbiano influenzato, e continuino a influenzare, la cultura videoludica e le sue comunità. Attraverso studi di casi specifici e l'unione di competenze trasversali, il libro offre una visione approfondita dei progressi compiuti verso una maggiore inclusione e rappresentazione femminile, evidenziando, al contempo, i lati oscuri e discriminanti che ancora oggi infestano il mondo del gaming. Con un approccio equilibrato e informativo, il libro si rivolge a studiosi, professionisti del settore e appassionati, desiderosi di approfondire il ruolo delle donne nell'industria, nelle storie e nella cultura che ruota attorno ai videogiochi. |
| joker society memes: Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age Laura J. Shepherd, Caitlin Hamilton, 2016-05-20 The practices of world politics are now scrutinised in a way that is unprecedented, with even those previously – or conventionally assumed to be – disengaged from international affairs being drawn into world politics by social media. Interactive websites allow users to follow election results in real-time from the other side of the world, and online mapping means that the world ‘out there’ is now available on your mobile phone. Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age engages these themes in contemporary world politics, to better understand how digital communication through new media technologies changes our encounters with the world. Whether the focus is digital media, social networking or user-generated content, these sites of political activity and the artefacts they produce have much to tell us about how we engage world politics in the contemporary age. This volume represents the starting point of a dialogue about how digital technologies are beginning to impact the research and practice of scholars and practitioners in the field of International Relations, with the collection of cutting-edge essays dealing specifically with the intertextuality of world politics and digital popular culture. This book will be of use to International Relations research academics (and critically engaged publics) interested in the core themes of global politics – subjectivity, militarism, humanitarianism, civil society organisation, and governance. The book also employs theories and techniques closely associated with other social science disciplines, including political theory, sociology, cultural studies and media studies. |
| joker society memes: Speaking My Mind Ronald Reagan, 1989 |
| joker society memes: The Implementation of Smart Technologies for Business Success and Sustainability Allam Hamdan, Haneen Mohammad Shoaib, Bahaaeddin Alareeni, Reem Hamdan, 2022-09-24 Industry 4.0 technologies identified as the main contributor to the digitalization era. New technology delivers optimal outputs by utilization of effective resource. Therefore, smart technologies that has inventive and creative objects became critical to enterprise; recent studies shows that its led enterprises business such as SMEs to considerable investments, which many organizations over the world attempt to use innovative technologies such as IoT and AI, these technologies have potential on sustainable business models. In addition to that, innovation usage in business models led to significant benefits towards sustainability concept in SMEs marketplace. Furthermore, Sustainability objectives refers to corporate sustainability term, which integrate enterprise operations with social, educational, environmental and economic benefits, as process of decision-making can impact during sustainability implications. This book focus on the implementation of smart technologies for growing business, the book includes research articles and expository papers on the applications of technology on Decision Making, Healthcare, Smart Universities, Advertising, E-marketing, Public Sector and Digital Government, FinTech, RegTech. Some researchers also discussed the role of smart technologies in the current COVID-19 pandemic, whether in the health sector, education, and others. On all of these, the researchers discussed the impact of smart technologies on decision-making in those vital sectors of the economy. |
| joker society memes: The Return of Hegemonic Masculinity Conrad Riker, 101-01-01 Why Modern Men Are Starving for Purpose—And How to Fix It Without Apologizing Tired of being called toxic for wanting to lead, protect, or compete? Sick of watching boys raised to be beta bureaucrats instead of warriors? Feel like marriage is a rigged game where you pay, pray, and lose? ✔ Exposes why gender equality is a myth that ignores 200,000 years of evolutionary biology. ✔ Debunks the lie that male leadership caused oppression—not collapse. ✔ Reveals how feminism weaponizes divorce courts to turn men into tax mules. ✔ Data-driven proof that societies thrive under patriarchy and implode under matriarchy. ✔ Uncensored case studies: From Churchill’s grit to why tech giants N.E.E.D. male brains. ✔ How to dodge the toxic masculinity trap while staying unapologetically strong. ✔ Why fatherlessness breeds chaos—and how to rebuild the nuclear family. ✔ The #1 reason modern women are miserable (hint: it’s not men’s fault). If you want to silence the guilt-trippers, reclaim your biological birthright, and lead a life feminists can’t cancel… buy this book today—before they ban it. |
| joker society memes: Digital Performance in Everyday Life Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, Ariel Gratch, 2021-11-11 Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces. Digital communication technologies and the social norms and discourses that developed alongside these technologies have altered the ways we perform as and for ourselves and each other in virtual spaces. Through a diverse range of topics and examples—including discussions of self-identity, surveillance, mourning, internet memes, storytelling, ritual, political action, and activism—this book addresses how the physical and virtual have become inseparable in everyday life, and how the digital is always rooted in embodied action. Focusing on performance and human agency, the authors offer fresh perspectives on communication and digital culture. The unique, interdisciplinary approach of this book will be useful to scholars, artists, and activists in communication, digital media, performance studies, theatre, sociology, political science, information technology, and cybersecurity—along with anyone interested in how communication shapes and is shaped by digital technologies. |
| joker society memes: Becoming a Sigma Male Conrad Riker, 101-01-01 They Want You Weak. This Book Is Your Bulletproof Exit. Tired of being punished for your biology while simps get applauded? Sick of surrendering half your paycheck to a system that views men as walking A.T.M.s? Ready to build a legacy that can’t be “canceled” by woke mobs or divorce courts? Why 72% of men under 30 are ghosting marriage—and thriving (Pew Research data you’ve never heard dissected). How to shield your assets from gynocentric laws designed to bankrupt you (hint: prenups are for betas). The evolutionary science behind why women chase alphas but demand betas fund their brunch. M.G.T.O.W.’s silent rebellion: Skip marriage, avoid persecution, and retire by 35 (real crypto case study). Why “toxic masculinity” is a feminist trap to shame your biological edge (and how to weaponize it). Skills that make women crave you (without simping—see: carpentry, stoicism, and salsa). Historical proof patriarchs built empires while matriarchs burned them (see: Mosuo tribe collapse). How to dominate like Genghis Khan 2.0—legacy, not diapers. If you want to break free from the marriage plantation, command respect, and live unchained… buy this book before feminists try to ban it. |
| joker society memes: Cape Fear Rob Daniel, 2021 Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water and climaxes on a raging river. Despite, or perhaps because of, the film's great commercial success, critical analysis of the film typically does not delve beneath the surface of Scorsese's first major box office hit. As it reaches its 30th anniversary, Cape Fear is now ripe for a full appraisal. The remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 Cape Fear was originally conceived as a straightforward thriller intended for Steven Spielberg. Author Rob Daniel investigates the fascinating ways Scorsese's style and preoccupations transform his version into a horror epic. The director's love of fear cinema, his Catholicism and filmmaking techniques shift Cape Fear into terrifying psychological and psychosexual waters. The analysis also examines the influence of Gothic literature and fairy tales, plus how academic approaches to genre aid an understanding of the film. |
| joker society memes: Smash the Patriarchy Connie Riker, Why Beg for Equality When You Can Burn Their System to Ash? Sick of men claiming logic while stealing your labor, silencing your pain, and policing your body? Done playing nice with a society that treats your breasts as public property and your anger as hysterical? Ready to weaponize their hypocrisy into your unstoppable revolution? - Turn abortion into a satanic sacrament that obliterates male control. - Make C.E.O.s, lawmakers, and rational men crumble with one scream of unhinged truth. - Redefine marriage as financial warfare—divorce him, take everything, and laugh. - Weaponize hypergamy: drain men’s wallets and sanity as reparations. - Replace male genius with stolen female labor—then bill them for centuries of theft. - Force toxic masculinity to choke on its own rules: Be vulnerable! Now shut up and die quietly! - Transform breastfeeding into a public act of rebellion that terrifies conservatives. - Build matriarchal communes where men serve as landscapers or get exiled. If you want to watch the patriarchy beg for mercy — buy this book before men make it illegal. |
| joker society memes: Insurrection Keith David Reeves, 2015-10-01 Enough. Private interests, politicians, reformers, and pundits have had their chance, and enough is enough. Teachers have been pushed around and pushed to the edge, and the time for tolerating the failed system of our public education policies is over. It's time to drag the standardized testing commercial complex out of our schools, kicking and screaming if need be, and take back our schools for our kids. The revolution has already begun. We must understand the etiology of the American public school's seeming inability to meaningfully and holistically teach every child if we are to have any hope of changing that school for the better. We must wrestle with the philosophical, sociological, and psychological roots of our misperception and mistreatment of children in order to change the way we understand our students. We must also understand the history of reform in American education in order to avoid repeating failed experiments. Once we do this, we can dismantle the traditional structures of the American Public School deliberately and thoughtfully, and capitalize upon the intense zeitgeist of the movement against corporatized standardized multiple choice testing, in order to truly revolutionize our schools. Over five sequential sections, Insurrection addresses educational philosophy, the system of schools, the social issue of misunderstanding children, replacement structures for those that are incompatible with understandings corrected in the first three sections, and a possible manner in which current school employees can lend their efforts to the revolution called for by Sir Ken Robinson in his 2010 TED Talk, which served as the impetus for the work. |
| joker society memes: Approaches to Internet Pragmatics Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus, Hartmut Haberland, 2021-04-15 Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this linguistic perspective to internet communication, under the umbrella label of internet pragmatics, are not only welcome, but necessary. The volume covers straightforward applications of pragmatic phenomena to internet interactions, as happens with speech acts and contextualization, and internet-specific kinds of communication such as the one taking place on WhatsApp, WeChat and Twitter. This collection also addresses the role of emoticons and emoji in typed-text dialogues and the importance of “physical place” in internet interactions (exhibiting an interplay of online-offline environments), as is the case in the role of place in locative media and in broader place-related communication, as in migration. |
| joker society memes: The Trouble with Jokes Nick Butler, 2023-12-18 We’re accustomed to seeing humour as a diversion from the serious side of life, but humour also permeates some of the most troubling political developments in recent years. From the resurgence of white nationalism to the erosion of democratic norms, jokes force-feed us objectionable ideologies while we gasp and splutter at all the side-splitting shenanigans. This book explores the relationship between humour and offensiveness in contemporary society. Drawing on examples from philosophical thinkers and popular culture, it invites readers to consider the dark side of humour. Weaving together cultural analysis, political discussion and philosophical reflection, the book provides an antidote to positive thinking about laughter and a roadmap for navigating different types of offensive humour. |
如何评价 2019 电影《小丑》（Joker）？ - 知乎
如何评价 2019 电影《小丑》（Joker）？ - 知乎
为什么网络形容小丑用joker而不用clown? - 知乎
只讨论国内网络语言的话，clown还是joker，在这里并不重要，英文只是个桥梁。 或者说是个类似和制英语的“汉制英语” 人们想表达的是中文里的“小丑”，而这里中文的“小丑”在这里也不再是马戏团表 …
「Joker」为何会翻译成小丑？ - 知乎
把joker翻译为小丑则是取joker里jester那一部分的意思了，如果joker这个词的其他意思被使用的话，具体怎么翻译要联系上下文不能统统翻译为小丑。 比如你和别人聊天，别人说“XXX简直就是 …
Joker 和 clown 的区别是什么？ - 知乎
Joker,又称作 jester, fool, 中文可以翻译成弄臣， 在西方古代宫廷专门以插科打诨来为帝王消烦解闷的人物。他们通常由侏儒担当，有特殊的服饰，典型的是他们有三个顶，每个顶上有一颗小球的帽子。
扑克牌中的丑角牌（joker）为什么会是皇牌呢？ - 知乎
2、 广告joker。广告牌中的joker变化非常丰富，不同的产品有不同的joker。这类joker通常印刷的是与产品或商标相关内容，其中的一些牌设计非常独特，深受收藏家们的欢迎。 3、 花色扑克的joker（ …
如何评价薛之谦的新英文名joker? - 知乎
而综艺上的老薛都是一直在笑在搞怪 他自己也说过综艺里他就是很做作 表演给观众看 为了红为了通告费为了他的音乐梦想他不得不像小丑一样的表演 只有唱歌的时候才是真正的他 就像是扑克牌里的joker …
有哪些可以2-4人联机的steam游戏，（最好不要太贵）谢谢大佬 …
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业、友善的社区 …
基因、染色体、蛋白质、DNA、RNA 之间的关系是什么？ - 知乎
生物小白一个，请问一下上述几种之间的关系如何，比如基因和染色体的关系，基因和蛋白质的关系如何，之间…
伺服电机如何选型？ - 知乎
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业、友善的社区 …
如何评价 2019 电影《小丑》（Joker）？ - 知乎
如何评价 2019 电影《小丑》（Joker）？ - 知乎
为什么网络形容小丑用joker而不用clown? - 知乎
只讨论国内网络语言的话，clown还是joker，在这里并不重要，英文只是个桥梁。 或者说是个类似和制英语的“汉制英语” 人们想表达的是中文里的“小丑”，而这里中文的“小丑”在这里也不再是 …
「Joker」为何会翻译成小丑？ - 知乎
把joker翻译为小丑则是取joker里jester那一部分的意思了，如果joker这个词的其他意思被使用的话，具体怎么翻译要联系上下文不能统统翻译为小丑。 比如你和别人聊天，别人说“XXX简直就 …
Joker 和 clown 的区别是什么？ - 知乎
Joker,又称作 jester, fool, 中文可以翻译成弄臣， 在西方古代宫廷专门以插科打诨来为帝王消烦解闷的人物。他们通常由侏儒担当，有特殊的服饰，典型的是他们有三个顶，每个顶上有一颗小球 …
扑克牌中的丑角牌（joker）为什么会是皇牌呢？ - 知乎
2、 广告joker。广告牌中的joker变化非常丰富，不同的产品有不同的joker。这类joker通常印刷的是与产品或商标相关内容，其中的一些牌设计非常独特，深受收藏家们的欢迎。 3、 花色扑克 …
如何评价薛之谦的新英文名joker? - 知乎
而综艺上的老薛都是一直在笑在搞怪 他自己也说过综艺里他就是很做作 表演给观众看 为了红为了通告费为了他的音乐梦想他不得不像小丑一样的表演 只有唱歌的时候才是真正的他 就像是扑 …
有哪些可以2-4人联机的steam游戏，（最好不要太贵）谢谢大佬 …
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业 …
基因、染色体、蛋白质、DNA、RNA 之间的关系是什么？ - 知乎
生物小白一个，请问一下上述几种之间的关系如何，比如基因和染色体的关系，基因和蛋白质的关系如何，之间…
伺服电机如何选型？ - 知乎
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业 …
