Kitsch appears as a theme emerging across Issue 3 of Memo. Catherine Liu calls political message art the “highest form of kitsch,” Slavoj Zizek delves into the kitsch depths of Trumpian political aesthetics, while others dissect sleek corporate aesthetics and social media’s performative dimensions. Artist Maria Kozic, this issue’s artist focus, takes the tension to an extreme, twisting pop aesthetics into provocative confrontations that make kitsch visceral, even violent.