The Philosophy of DOGE - Memecraft and Discursive Control
Start: 2025-05-11 13:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
End: 2025-05-11 14:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
Event Type:
Virtual
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.
You've protested at Tesla. You're part of like, 5 Indivisible groups and a 50501 group. You make 5 calls a day to your representatives. You know people who are afraid they won't be able to pay their rent if their social security doesn't arrive every month.
Still you have this question - who celebrates DOGE? What's up with all the weird memes? Why is the WhiteHouse posting like twitter memelord? There has to be some deeper philosophy or guiding principles behind the movement that became DOGE, and the counter-protestors with the "Fuck Joe Biden" flags can't seem to enunciate it.
This webinar is for you.
Joshua Dávila, author of Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It, has been writing and speaking about the neoreactionary movement - as practiced and espoused by the Elon Musk - since 2020 and experiencing the movement in his daily life as a technology worker.
Josh will break down the basic philosophies and roadmaps behind the neoreactionary movement, the purpose of memecraft in discursive control, and what we can do to counteract.
Background Reading:
MEMECRAFT: Narrative Dynamics, Discursive Control and Capital in Crypto Culture
Previous Discussion:
The Philosophy Behind DOGE, inspired by Zuzalu Presentation on Network States – or why Network States are silly.