The rickroll is a kind of postmodern "shared joke" that can be used to dissipate online social anxiety—at least inasfar as everyone "gets" it. But among whom is that implicit context shared, really? The truth, according to this insightful longread at Medium, is that rickrolling is highly problematic, especially in its dependence upon the semiotics of cisgendered discourse. [via]
The funny thing is that as a sociology graduate from the late 1990s, I'd have no problem confecting a critique of rickrolling from a critical/queer theory background. But none other than Judith Butler already did it, more or less, in "Performativity and the Pleasure Principle." By her standards it's a short read, worth a look.
(shout-out to http://pixlr.com for quick image editing in-browser.)
"Would that Rickrollers had but one neck!" -- Caligula
The funny thing is that as a sociology graduate from the late 1990s, I'd have no problem confecting a critique of rickrolling from a critical/queer theory background. But none other than Judith Butler already did it, more or less, in "Performativity and the Pleasure Principle." By her standards it's a short read, worth a look.
10/10
I listened to the whole thing out of respect.
I have that same Trackman Marble, and Logitech does indeed provided a scroll function, albeit clunky: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble?crid=8