This article explores the Pepe the Frog Internet meme through a spatial approach that targets the ways in which netizens attempt to repurpose it, so as to build a communal space in which meaning is constantly negotiated and hijacked. We argue that Pepe the Frog and other memes can be interpreted as “cyberplaces” defined as computer environments that display the ideological polemics between netizens as they struggle to build a sense of community. Moreover, the rhizomatic stratification of such cyberplaces reveals a more nuanced view of meme dynamics, one that takes into account the agency of users as they efface and impose meanings on memes, not unlike the process of deterritorialization enacted on places.

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Review of Franco Moretti's Distant Reading

This article explores Brazilian poet Manoel de Barros' collaboration with photographer Adriana Lafer in Arquitetura do silêncio (2015). The meta discourse on language that emerges in the book challenges meaning, reference, and translation as a means to transfigure the modes of seeing the Pantanal biome in Brazil, shifting our focus to the insignificant and abandoned things strewn across the ground. By tracing the contributions of Frege and Quine in tandem with Barros' playful questioning of how words represent the world around us, this article argues in favour of profound awareness of language in the Brazilian poet's work, an awareness that culminates in the blurring of words and images in Arquitetura.

El avance de las Ciencias Naturales durante los primeros años del siglo XIX fue decisivo en el desarrollo de los debates metafísicos entre filósofos y, a su vez, inspiró los temas de muchas tertulias literarias en Europa. Impulsada por los descubrimientos en Biología, Química y Fisiología, la Medicina se convirtió en una fuente de inspiración en las investigaciones filosóficas de la época. El propósito de este artículo es demostrar el impacto que la Medicina tuvo sobre los argumentos de uno de los filósofos centrales de la época, Arthur Schopenhauer. También tratará de trazar esa influencia dentro de la literatura gótica. El resultado será un sobrio testimonio del carácter interdisciplinar de la Filosofía, la Medicina y la Literatura.