International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies (Dec 2020)

Memes to A Darker Shade: Dark Simpsons, Un/Popular Culture and Summoning Theories of Darkness

  • Sue Charlton,
  • Tara Brabazon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.23918/ijsses.v7i4p1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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This article enters the Dark Simpsons to provide theories of un/popular culture, while summoning models of dark pop. The piece commences with a conventional presentation of memes. However, their accelerated movement is probed and monitored to understand the agitated transformations between popular and un/popular culture. These models are then applied to an investigation of the Dark Simpsons and the rationale for this troubled and troubling cultural system.

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