Kastalia Knowledge Management System · Glasperlenspiel template · knot 2660
Memes, Mindworms, Memplexes &c.
Introduction to Memetics 14.10:::Evolution – from void to Darwin 21.10:::The tip of the iceberg – from Freud, Dawkins, Rizzolatti 28.10:::The 2nd replicator (Blackmore) 4.11:::Theory of cultural evolution 11.11:::Visual memes – from hieroglyphs to emojis 18.11:::Earworms, mindworms 25.11::Fashion, Style, Art &c. 2.12:::Media 9.12::::Memplexes 16.12:::Memes in Law, Politics & Propaganda 13.1 :::Memes & Cyberspace 20.1:::Memes, Memecoins, AIs 27.1.:::Memes revisited 3.2:::The Congress
Ancestors (1 superordinated path)
Descendants (at least 27 branches originate here)
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Memes, Mindworms, Memplexes &c.
Introduction to Memetics 14.10:::Evolution – from void to Darwin 21.10:::The tip of the iceberg – from Freud, Dawkins, Rizzolatti 28.10:::The 2nd replicator (Bl
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is_parent Memes in Alltag
Session 0 · Memetics begins at home.Before Internet memes, before ideology, before theory: gestures, tunes, habits, rituals, phrases, drawings, interfaces and e-
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Meme
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“A meme is whatever is copied from person to person.”— Susan Blackmore, working definitionFor today, let us start with this deliberately simple definition. -
is_parent Copied? ·
Copying does not necessarily mean making an exact duplicate.You hear a joke.You remember the structure, forget several words, change a character......and tell i -
is_parent Two Worlds ·
external expression → perception → internal reconstruction → expressionA meme can appear outside us: as sound, gesture, image, text, object, ritual.It can be re -
is_parent A Word of Warning ·
Memetics is a theory among other theories.Human culture can also be studied through psychology, anthropology, sociology, cultural evolution, semiotics, media th -
is_parent Not Everything That Spreads Is a Meme ·
A virus spreads. That does not make it a cultural meme.Genes are copied. That does not make them memes.You discover by yourself that fire is hot. No person-to-p -
is_parent Where Is the Meme? ·
Is the meme the sentence?The idea expressed by the sentence?The memory in somebody's brain?The rule that allows the sentence to be reconstructed?The pattern dis -
is_parent Memethical Engineering ·
Memethical engineering is the deliberate design, modification, and circulation of memes and memetic environments in accordance with explicit ethical goals.For e -
is_parent Engineering the Environment ·
Memetic engineering asks: How can this spread?Memethical engineering must additionally ask: Should it spread?Who benefits?What disappears when it succeeds?Can p -
is_parent Memes in Alltag
Let us now temporarily leave theory behind.Look at ordinary life as a landscape of things passing from person to person.We will move from the smallest and faste -
is_parent From Meme to Memeplex
Memes rarely live alone.They support, trigger and protect one another.A fashion includes clothes, vocabulary, gestures, music, places and identities.A professio -
is_parent Exercise · Find One
Think of one meme you encountered today.Not necessarily an Internet meme.Where did you encounter it?What was its external form?What did you reconstruct internal -
is_parent Memes in Alltag ·
A handshake.A birthday song.A stupid little drawing in a school notebook.A phrase you suddenly notice yourself saying.A floppy disk that survived its floppy dis
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is_parent Replication + Variation + Selection = Evolution 🔒 ·
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is_parent Freud, Dawkins, Rizzolatti 🔒 ·
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is_parent The second replicator 🔒 ·
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is_parent Theory of cultural evolution 🔒 ·
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is_parent Visual memes – glyphs, emojis, latrinalia &c. 🔒 ·
Visual memes – glyphs, emojis, latrinalia &c. -
is_parent Earworms, mindworms, moving memes::Fashion, Style, Art &c. 🔒 ·
Earworms, mindworms, moving memes::Fashion, Style, Art &c. -
is_parent Mediated memes, Urban memes 🔒 ·
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is_parent Memplexes 🔒 ·
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is_parent Memes in Law, Politics & Propaganda 🔒 ·
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is_parent Memes & Cyberspace 🔒 ·
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is_parent Memes, Memecoins, AIs 🔒 ·
Memes, Memecoins, AIs -
is_parent Memes revisited 🔒 ·
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is_parent The Congress 🔒 ·
The Congress
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