List the assumptions.
Every attractive narrative rests on claims worth examining.
A cultural exchange of possible futuresmemestockexchange.org
Meme Stock Exchange
Exchange ideas. Grow the commons.
Exchange ideas that change the room.
Open the charter ↘CHARTER 01A different instinct for a familiar institution.SCROLL TO EXPLORE ↓
01 / THE CHARTER
Change what the institution is for.
A culture is always repricing its attention. An exhausted story loses its hold. A new image gives people language for what they already felt. Suddenly, a different future enters the conversation.
Meme Stock Exchange is a proposed editorial exchange for those shifts: a place to compare narratives, examine their promises, and ask what kind of world they encourage us to build.
The listings here are ideas. Read their assumptions. Question their appeal. Imagine their consequences. The most interesting exchange happens when somebody leaves with a better way to think.
This is the founding charter: an invitation to develop the ideas below.
02 / THE PRINCIPLES
Look through the hype.
Explore what the idea would mean in everyday life.
Invite comparison.
Give readers more than one plausible way to see the future.
IDEAS TO MAKE REAL.
PROPOSED DIRECTIONSThe Narrative Listings
A proposed catalog of cultural ideas presented with sources, promises, assumptions, and open questions.
EXPLORATIONThe Opening Bell
A proposed short editorial introducing one emerging idea and the debate around it.
EXPLORATIONFuture Comparables
A proposed visual series comparing how different stories frame the same public problem.
EXPLORATION03 / KEEP EXPLORING
ONE INSTITUTION.
A WHOLE WORLD
AROUND IT.
Read the charter and explore its proposed directions. Carry an idea into your own creative work, then follow the neighboring institutions in the web.