Deep Fried Feels di AAVV - Casa editrice: Produzioni Nero, 2024

Deep Fried Feels is a memetic exploration of the contemporary world's crises-or \"polycrises,\" to use an expression made famous by economist Adam Tooze, which emphasizes their interconnected nature-and an \"attempt to map out the hypercomplex, interlaced cluster*uck that is the world we are living in.\" Clusterduck draws on memetic \"poor images\" found on the fringes of the internet's dynamic and ever-expanding reservoir of content, transforming these motifs into high-resolution works while simultaneously imitating the distortions and noise of traditional \"fried\" memes. The resulting images capture the dissonant, fragmented nature of our shared online existence through a hyper-saturated aesthetic, and each meme/character they represent serves as a representation of the collective emotions-commonly referred to as \"feels\"-evoked by local or global polycrises. Chapter by chapter, Deep Fried Feels navigates urgent issues, including the attention economy and data loss, which define an