6-7 and the First World War: How Internet absurdism became Dada's unlikely heir
- Exploring Internet memes as a cultural off-shoot of DadaismDuring a time when boundaries had not been drawn onto maps, when man still looked like beast instead of only acting like one, our ancestors developed speech.
- Over millennia, language emerged, empires rose and fell over it, wars were fought over single words and whose god had the right one — all so that, in the 21st century, we could use this ancient tool to say '6-7'.
- Finding meaning in the memes that come out of the internet in this day and age is nothing short of the 13th Herculean task.
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- Exploring Internet memes as a cultural off-shoot of DadaismDuring a time when boundaries had not been drawn onto maps, when man still looked like beast instead of only acting like one, our ancestors developed speech.
- Over millennia, language emerged, empires rose and fell over it, wars were fought over single words and whose god had the right one — all so that, in the 21st century, we could use this ancient tool to say '6-7'.
- Finding meaning in the memes that come out of the internet in this day and age is nothing short of the 13th Herculean task.
Sources: Times of India