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Parametric Protest

The Occupy protests embodied a structure of dissemination and of identification that is also in evidence in computational media. This essay describes the style of sloganeering used by occupy protesters that we now would recognize as "meme culture" and connects that structure with the parametric structure of computation. 

Date
December, 2011
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