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Contemporary discourse treats slop as evidence of platform decay, AI oversaturation, and the exhaustion of visual culture. This talk approaches slop as a productive aesthetic condition that drives the multiplication of fragmented subgenres. Reading slop through multiplication foregrounds emergence, mutation, and genre production as key dynamics of digital cultures.
Moving across fruit slop, weirdcore, religious slop, theoryslop, lore slop, and girlslop, the talk maps slop as a site of aesthetic differentiation. Slop aesthetics reveal how recursive media like memes and brain rot produce new formal tendencies, narrative structures, and even modes of coming-together online.
Organisers/Management
Mela Miekus
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Ruben Stoffelen
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Lovink, Geert
