
Zizek & Digital Culture w/ Clint Burnham
Žižek And So On
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The Importance of Laughing Out Loud
LOL is used in what linguists call grammatical particles. These are little phrases or words that don't actually mean the content of them. It just sort of adds on to look and doesn't sort of add any kind of extra meaning to it. So if LOL is on the one hand, it's just kind of it. Just when someone sends you a text, you just write LOL, which kind of means I got it. You can't be bought, but also kind of Means I don't give a fuck.
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