![This is the republic in the age of the Internet, an ersatz exchange between different types of power: political power (Paul Ryan himself); creative (University of Wisconsin grad student Danielle Henderson, who first matched an image of Ryan Gosling to the algorithm “Hey girl, [pro-feminist comment]”); what we might call creatively distributional power (the thousands who made all sorts of other Ryan Gosling jokes); and the physically distributional (the pilot today who strapped the banner to his or her plane and took off into the air, to fly above Paul Ryan himself).
(via Banner Above Paul Ryan-Led Event: ‘Hey Girl, Choose Me, Lose Choice—P. Ryan’ - Technology - The Atlantic)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8rm47UwGn1r3elr6o1_1280.jpg)
This is the republic in the age of the Internet, an ersatz exchange between different types of power: political power (Paul Ryan himself); creative (University of Wisconsin grad student Danielle Henderson, who first matched an image of Ryan Gosling to the algorithm “Hey girl, [pro-feminist comment]”); what we might call creatively distributional power (the thousands who made all sorts of other Ryan Gosling jokes); and the physically distributional (the pilot today who strapped the banner to his or her plane and took off into the air, to fly above Paul Ryan himself).
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