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by Cthulhu_ 243 days ago
We're through the looking glass. Post-ironic paper taking random memes seriously?

I bet there's papers about Monty Python's animations too. Actually I don't need to bet, there's Google [0]:

> The animated interludes in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail demonstrate director and animator Terry Gilliam's interest in and use of images in the margins of Gothic manuscripts. [1]

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sdt=0%2C5&q=monthy+pyt...

[1] https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/91/article/424939/summary

1 comments

These aren't random, toilets vs cameras, and they're not even arbitrary. In neurobiological terms, they're references. Eyes and anuses.