The Rise and Fall of Dank Memes

Illustrated book about dank memes

2018

The illustrated story follows two characters who learn the history of memes and how they work.

Set in the near future, the book imagines that memes won’t be qualitative anymore. By explaining how memes work in their ironic nature, the story warns that with an over-load of information, we paradoxically get a lack of meaning.

The book was the part of the project Dystopia is Now at the Free University of Bolzano, led by professor Pietro Corraini, Andrea Facchetti and Emanuela De Cecco.