mistakes the symptom for the disease.

trolling is, or at least can be, an extremely effective rhetorical strategy.

the fact that online trolling is par for the mainstream cultural course.

trolls are born of and embedded within dominant institutions and tropes,

dirt is best understood as matter out of place, and is intelligible only in relation to existing systems of cleanliness:

an “indignant correction” was the ultimate goal of these so-called trollers.

polysemy—he doesn’t tell the audience what to make of his actions. He acts, he leaves, and suddenly there is nothing.

that trolls’ behaviors provide an implicit, and sometimes outright explicit, critique of existing media and cultural systems—

Mary Douglas’s exploration of the related concepts of dirt and taboo.