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Eperga to the Parerga

Parergon (pl. parerga): something supplementary to a work (ergon) of art; an embellishment to it; a framing element

Epergon (pl. eperga): something outside of, or additional to, a work of art

Additional material to A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!, volume I

Memes to appear in volume II

  • M.3 A Character in a Novel
  • M.7 Filioque
  • M.16 Yeah, Yeah
  • M.21 Wrong!
  • M.23 Whereof One Cannot Speak…
  • M.26 God Loves the Number 5
  • M.27 He Thought that He Thought…
  • M.33 I Thought Your Boat….
  • M.34 Distinguo, Batters
  • M.35…More Like a Visible One
  • M.38 The Incredulous Stare
  • M.39 It’s Greek!
  • M.40 Maudlin Trash
  • M.41 Galbungus Says It Does
  • M.44 Vish!
  • M.47 Are You Even Listening?
  • M.51 The Language of Flowers
  • M.53 Haven’t You Heard?
  • M.54 There Was a Ship…
  • M.55 My Favorite Notes
  • M.56 Cicero**!
  • M.57 I Refute Him Thus
  • M.59 #JeSuisRobin
  • M.61 And This Is Not a Slap
  • M.64 An Error in The Reckoning
  • M.65 I Am Spartacus!
  • M.66 Slap Negation
  • M.67 I Am No-One
  • M.68 The Age of Grief
  • M.70 Snow Is White!
  • M.71 Shhh!
  • M.73 Strong Female Lead
  • M.75 Too Easy, Robin!
  • M.79 Perimiter
  • M.81 You Demon?
  • M.82 Not a Performative
  • M.83 “Sorry!” (Not Sorry!)
  • M.84 Fail Better!
  • M.85 What Is It Like?
  • M.86 The Sleep of Reason
  • M.87 A Pair of Fine Eyes
  • M.88 Bibliophagia
  • M.89 The Cheat of Words
  • M.90 Widdershins
  • M.93 Not What You’re Thinking
  • M.94 A Girl Has No Name
  • M.95 Incoherence
  • M.98 Synthesis
  • M.99 Jerusalem
  • M.100 Change
  • M.102 Groovy!
  • M.103 Tangle
  • M.104 Dinner’s Ready!

Recent posts from The Parergon blog

  • Determinate Content podcast about the Batman Meme Project
    by Simon Evnine
    Åka Gafvelin interviewed me for his podcast series Determinate Content. We talked about the Batman Meme Project and some other related things.
  • Whither volume II?
    by Simon Evnine
    A while ago, before the publication of volume I of A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga! (Dec 2022), I joked on Facebook that I would certainly be referring to work by the psychoanalyst Joseph Slap! Unfortunately, […]
  • “Philosophy always needed a good m**e-ing, Robin!”
    by Simon Evnine
    My friend, the linguist Manny Rayner, has been doing some really interesting work on ChatGPT. He has also been reading and reviewing A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga! on the Goodreads website. As he made his […]
  • Four short videos about the book. 4. Psychoanalysis
    by Simon Evnine
    And here is the final, short video I have made about A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!, this time dealing with its relation to psychoanalysis. The book itself is available from Amazon, in ebook, paperback, and […]
  • Four short videos about the book. 3. Autotheory
    by Simon Evnine
    Here is the third of my short videos about A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!, this one dealing with its status as autotheory.
  • Four short videos about the book. 2. How is it philosophy?
    by Simon Evnine
    Here is the second of my short videos about my new book, A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!. This one takes up the question of in what sense my book counts as a work of philosophy.

The slap

Warning: It’s loud!

Videos

Evnine’s Batman Memes: The Movie. This movie marked the official end of the Batman Meme Project and was posted on Facebook in March, 2016

Gone! was the second Batman meme movie. It was born of the desire to add the sound of the slap to the whole enterprise
This is a part of a talk I gave on the book in progress and includes several of the memes acted out live by my good friends Oliver and Jenny Black

Music mentioned in the commentaries

Gilbert O’Sullivan’s No Matter How I Try, discussed in Gilbert AND Sullivan (M.5).
Gilbert AND Sullivan’s I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General discussed in Gilbert AND Sullivan (M.5).
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Tit Willow discussed in Gilbert AND Sullivan (M.5).
Arnold Schönberg’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (fortunately not conducted by Evnine, as discussed in Ode to Napoleon (M.17)).
The Passover song Echad Mi Yodeah (Who Knows One?), discussed in Who Knows Two (M.29) and Thirteen Holes (M.30).
Who Knows Two (M.29) mentions another song with the title Who Knows One (Echad Mi Yodea), this one a Klezmer tune that also occurs in the soundtrack of the second Batman meme movie, Gone!.
Green Grow the Rushes, O, discussed in Thirteen Holes (M.30), in a lovely a cappella version.
A rendition of a part of Jewish liturgy from which the thirteen attributes of mercy are derived, as discussed in Thirteen Holes (M.30). It is sung here, in a version known to Evnine from his youth, by Eliezer Diamond.
Io che dal ciel cader by Caccini, discussed in Say the Opposites (M.50).
The setting of Guarini’s Mentre vaga Angioletta, by Monteverdi. The text is discussed in Say the Opposites (M.50).
Riccardo d’Este, Giammai ti abbandonerò, from Say the Opposites (M.50).