A certain gesture: il Batman Meme Project di Simon Evnine

This essay introduces a project situated at the intersection of philosophy and artistic and literary expression. Its creator, Simon Evnine, is a philosopher with a background in analytic philosophy. Alongside his academic work, he developed the Batman Meme Project, inspired by the well-known meme of Batman slapping Robin. In this project, operating with an ironic and playful tone, Evnine interweaves philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, and autobiographical themes while blending various genres and expressive formats (text, image, video). Around a core comprising multiple versions of the meme, Evnine has constructed a body of supplementary texts (the parerga), including a book that serves as a kind of annotated catalogue of the project (Evnine, S., ed. (2022). A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga! London, Tell It Slant Press).