Shitposting e Dadaismo: ideologie a confronto

In the context of digital culture, the practice of shitposting, while presenting a lack of unambiguity in the definition of the term, takes the form of an artistic manifestation whose purpose is to communicate through elements deemed culturally "trashy." Shitposting makes use of content taken mainly by media (in the form of texts, images and videos), developing a creative and experimental approach to contemporary cultural dynamics. Although for many it is still unthinkable to consider shitposting a full-fledged art form, at the same time it is possible to draw parallels with a particular artistic current: Dadaism. Just like the art movement, whose goal was to demolish conventional artistic and aesthetic norms through the use of unconventional assets and approaches, shitposting today represents a systematic effort aimed at ridiculing traditional online conventions through experimentation and the use of digital trash, characterized predominantly by the production of irreverent, provocative and irreverent memes. It is not surprisingly that contemporary digital participatory culture increasingly uses the evocative power of shitposting as an artistic expression to challenge social norms by focusing attention on political and cultural issues. To quote Slavoj Žižek, the aim is simple: create a sense of détournement through the use of a particular form of “sublime trash".