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HYPERSYNTHESIS

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Most of the times, memes present a dilemma: In one hand they offer a popular, simple, effective and participative means for communication. On the other hand, they offer a very limited space for the development of ideas and arguments, many times resulting in a very poor and limited form of visual rhetoric. But in the same way that this scarcity of space  can lead to poor argumentation, it can also provide the ideal conditions to the formation of some pieces of art and communication with an insanely high significance density. In other words, memes, having very little space, can condense an enormous amount of information by combining visual and  verbal language. This phenomena in which dense information is easily and effectively communicated through an unconventional way,  was named hypersynthesis by the author, that spends far too much time on the internet and too little at the library to know better if some thinker has or has not already developed a better term to describe such phenomena. Below there are some memes  and other internet pieces that  are typical cases of what the author calls Hypersynthesis:

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