A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes

A vital reckoning with how we understand the basic categories of cultural expression in the digital era

Digital and social media have transformed how much and how fast we communicate, but they have also altered the palette of expressive strategies: the cultural forms that shape how citizens, activists, and artists speak and interact. Most familiar among these strategies are storytelling and representation. In A Theory of Assembly, Kyle Parry argues that one of the most powerful and pervasiv...