If you haven’t seen the latest internet meme, here’s our favourite spin-off from the Harlem Shake… And you can read more about the implications of the latest web phenomenon.

Adbusters magazine and its editor Kalle Lasn have been at the forefront of the global resistance to capitalism exemplified by the Occupy movement. Their new book, Meme Wars: the Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economies, uses startling images to back up its hard-hitting points. Here are a selection of some of the best. Photographs: Adbusters. Read the full interview with Kalle Lasn here.

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Fresh from his double Olympic gold wins, Mo Farrah has been spending a lot of time running away from things. Including Batman.

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Xeni Jardin responds to peppersprayingcop on Comment is Free - “The pepper-spraying cop gets Photoshop justice”:

Nature abhors a vacuum, it is said; and the internet abhors unexplained dissonance. When photographs emerged of police lieutenant John Pike pepper-spraying University of California Davis students, it wasn’t just the violence in those images that captured the world’s attention – it was the surreal juxtaposition of that violence with Pike’s oddly casual body language and facial expression

(…)One way the internet deals with that kind of upsetting dissonance is to mock it. And that’s what the internet has done with Pike. The “casually pepper-spraying cop” is now a meme, a kind of folk art or shared visual joke that is open to sharing and reinterpretation by anyone. This particular meme has spread with unusual velocity – in part, I imagine, because the subject matter is just as weird as it is upsetting.