The Pandemic as “Joke”
Meme Culture, the Alt-Right, and Steve Bannon’s “War Room”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tad Lemieux, Stuart J Murray (0000-0001-8850-5406) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 96-105 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-0143 • E-ISSN: 1916-0194 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/topia-012 |
| OpenAlex | W3109717188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This text plots the analogical and memetic conveyances of the COVID-19 pandemic by the so-called alt-right. Arguing that the pandemic stages a complex transgression situated at the borders of Chinese global expansion, Traditionalist philosophy and online meme culture, and taking as instance Steve Bannon’s War Room: Pandemic, we follow “the joke” that informs and deforms the claims of community, sovereignty and truth
Art · Joke · Literature · Media studies · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |