The Voice of the Internet

These are just some of the memes archived in Patricia Lockwood’s 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This—three of fifty-five, if you abide by LitHub.com, whose staff writer Walker Caplan diligently counted “all the memes referenced” in it.2 When Lockwood presented an excerpt of her book at the Briti...

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Published inRepresentations (Berkeley, Calif.) Vol. 168; no. 1; pp. 125 - 145
Main Author Shechtman, Anna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berkeley University of California Press Books Division 01.11.2024
Subjects
Fiction
Internet
Novels
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Summary:These are just some of the memes archived in Patricia Lockwood’s 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This—three of fifty-five, if you abide by LitHub.com, whose staff writer Walker Caplan diligently counted “all the memes referenced” in it.2 When Lockwood presented an excerpt of her book at the British Museum in 2019, she stood before a PowerPoint presentation, guiding her audience through the tweets, screengrabs, and other born-digital content to which her words referred.3 That same year, the London Review of Books published Lockwood’s talk as an essay titled “The Communal Mind,” with her PowerPoint slides included as in-text illustrations.4 When later printed in hardback as fiction, Lockwood’s meme-stream-of-consciousness text included no grounding images
ISSN:0734-6018
1533-855X
DOI:10.1525/rep.2024.168.8.125