Re: UKNM: Memes and marketing

[Chris]

blah blah blah . . . deleuze and guattari . . . blah blah blah . . . bodies

without organs . . . blah blah blah . . . rhizome . . . blah blah blah . .

. desiring subjectivities onlines . . . blah blah blah . . . online culture

conferences circa 1993 . . . blah blah blah . . . lyotard & networks of

desire . . . blah blah blah . . . very similar in theory to current

e-commerce models . . . blah blah blah . . . like every cult studies

postgrad research . . . blah blah blah . . . 


At 03:48 PM 4/3/00 +0100, you wrote:

>> 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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