Good links for the uninformed?

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Permalink Reply by Poppy Moon on December 23, 2011 at 12:27am

I like Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine, 2000, Oxford University Press.

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on December 23, 2011 at 12:30am

http://memetics.chielens.net/memetics/memeplexes.html

This looks like a good site.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on December 23, 2011 at 9:26am

That does look like a good place to start, Steph. I've read The Meme Machine and Virus of the Mind, but I'll spend some time reading this site as well.

Permalink Reply by Richard Goscicki on December 23, 2011 at 6:38pm

Ruth, Susan's The Meme Machine is the Bible of Memetics.  A must read to understand what it's all about.  She has a TED lecture that's very good also.  My book, Mirror Reversal, is one of the few novels I know of with a glossary of terms in the back.  The only others are 1984 and Clockwork Orange.  (Not bad company.) 

It's a terrible shame the way memetics has been pooh-poohed and downplayed by the academic community.  It sure works for me and explains a lot.  Check out my video on youtube on "endmeme". 

I believe the reason memetics has failed as a science is because the majority of the people on the world don't like hearing that their most dear and profound religious beliefs are nothing more than the paracitism of a computer virus. 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Poppy Moon on December 23, 2011 at 8:39pm

Susan's TED lecture is excellent as a way to contextualise memetics in today's chronoscopic society.

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on December 26, 2011 at 8:52pm

Thanks for the suggestions!

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on December 29, 2011 at 4:03pm

I got my book from Amazon Today -- here's the website for the book

 

http://www.thegodvirus.net/

The God Virus:
How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture
By Darrel W. Ray, Ed.D.

So excited -- can't wait to read it