In honor of this day of pranks, here is a summary of Lewis Hydes most excellent (and Thoroughly Educated) book on tricksters, called Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1997), via Whitney Phillips, a Thoroughly Educated scholar on internet trolling and other forms of media jamming. As Hyde tells it, trickster doesn’t tell us what to make of his actions. That’s not his job. He acts, he leaves, and suddenly there is nothing, forcing those left in trickster’s wake to spin out endlessly their sense of what has happened (288). Tricksters are prophetic, then, because they refuse to prophesize; in so (not) doing, they point towards what is actually happening: the muddiness, the ambiguity, the noise (300).
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:50:20 +0000
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