Re: UKNM: Memes and marketing

[Rory Teeling]

by 'desire' i merely meant the sense of non

randomness, not of course that memes or even genes

think about what they are doing, hence 'desire' and

not desire. Sorry for the confusing language!



--- lizvlx <

lizubermorgen [dot] com

> wrote:

> if you wanna read about this, get yourself a copy

> of the book to ars electronica year 1996, that

> year's title of the symposium was "memesis".

> its in both english and german. contributing

> authors are: gerfried stocker, geert lovink,

> sandy stone, sadie plant, douglas rushkoff,

> adrian x, tom sherman, karin spaink, vns matrix,

> van gogh tv and hotwired.

> 

> it was/is published by springer wien/newyork

>   http://www.springer.at/

> 

> isbn 3-211-82846-x

> 

> cheers,

> liz

> 

> > > Has anybody come across memetic theory, wherein

> the

> >> argument is posited that ideas, like genes have

> an

> >> inherent 'desire' to propogate and replicate, and

> >> peoples minds are fundamentally meme incubators.

> >

> >There is no notion of 'desire' in either the

> genetic or memetic story.

> >

> >Genes copy themselves (imperfectly)

> >Memes copy themselves (imperfectly)

> >Some live and some die.

> >This depends on the climate.

> >

> >End of story

> 

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