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Internet memes have become ubiquitous tools of digital communication and a fundamental component of everyday communicative practices (Johann & Bülow, 2018, 1). Far from being merely humorous images, memes function as multimodal artifacts, so called Language-Image-Texts (Osterroth 2015, 2019, 2020), through which users can perform speech acts in the sense of Austin (1962) and Searle …
The Chaos Gods of Warhammer 40K are more than mere antagonists; they are manifestations of mythological archetypes, shaped by religious iconography, esoteric symbols, and historical depictions of divinity and damnation. Their presence is both active and passive—they gaze upon mortals, shaping their fate, while mortals gaze back, becoming reflections of the gods themselves. This paper …
Humanity currently finds itself awash in data, generating over 300 exabytes daily through a mesh of connected devices, digital platforms, and increasingly autonomous systems. While this may seem extraordinary, it is but a prelude to the data-saturated absurdity imagined in the Warhammer 40,000 universe – a setting where information is sacred, dangerous, and often utterly …
The Warhammer 40k universe, set roughly 38,000 years in the future, presents an intriguing opportunity to explore the potential trajectory of technological advancement. This abstract proposes a comparative analysis of historical technological development with speculative projections for the next 38 millennia, drawing on the rich technological landscape depicted in Warhammer 40k. Technological progress over the …
As I sit down in my scriptorium, the cogitator comes alive with a touch of my finger, its spirit has grown accustomed to in lengthy rituals of familiarization after it was first assigned to me. Eager to work, it presents me with chatter from the noosphere that still my flesh is too weak to perceive …
When influential as well as controversial philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote “Die Frage nach der Technik” (1954), he did not have in mind the dark age of technology, but rather the danger of a reduction of human being to a resource (“Bestand”) inherent to the purely technical world-view of our time. Most perfidiously, this “Gefahr” doesn’t …