Black Meme - Legacy Russell reading book eminent Swiss architect Ernst Gisel

eminent Swiss architect Ernst Gisel (1922–2021) designed this ensemble of buildings comprising eight apartments and twelve artist studios in 1953

Captivated by the idea and processes of reproduction

from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium

um die Geschichte der Kunst einem jungen Publikum nahezubringen

Black Meme - Legacy Russell reading book eminent Swiss architect Ernst GiselIn BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the meme as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media. Russell argues that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form. These meditations include the circulation of lynching postcards; why a mother allowed JET magazine to publish a picture of her