tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7277432389464540317..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Hells BellsDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-18170437331469695952013-07-31T09:53:56.711-07:002013-07-31T09:53:56.711-07:00Wouldn't you say today's state of the conc...<i>Wouldn't you say today's state of the concept "meme" is like that of the "gene" in the 1890s; there's hints that there is a mechanism of information transfer, we just can't figure out any specifics?</i><br /><br />Memetics isn't some promising fledgling discipline. It's a futurological neologism -- with the usual wannabe guru huckster PR in play -- through which ignoramuses have been pretending to re-invent the wheel of rhetoric for a generation. Rhetoric has always been the analysis of discourse, and much contemporary critical and cultural theory is best understood as its ongoing elaboration. I do not include much if any "memetic" nonsense to that body of criticism, since memetics brings nothing actually new or useful to the table, it is a far clumsier analytic vocabulary for historically situating discourse or specifying its stakeholders or dynamisms than philology of over a century ago -- indeed apart from the pep of its initial neologism memetics adds idiocy of a reductive mis-analogization of signification to a biology itself already idiotically reductively mis-analogized to computer programming. There are plenty of ugly ideological reasons that digi-utopians and market fundamentalists would consider this a feature and not a bug of the meme qua cult-bug -- after all, most of them disdain and fear the insights arising from proper rhetoric in any case.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-46744421993396607632013-07-31T08:26:33.292-07:002013-07-31T08:26:33.292-07:00> the word "meme". . .
Not to be con...> the word "meme". . .<br /><br />Not to be confused with<br />http://www.whimsicalarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mimi.jpg<br /><br /><br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-88736769120412977792013-07-31T06:44:30.067-07:002013-07-31T06:44:30.067-07:00Wouldn't you say today's state of the conc...Wouldn't you say today's state of the concept "meme" is like that of the "gene" in the 1890s; there's hints that there is a mechanism of information transfer, we just can't figure out any specifics?Esebianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352289295517890623noreply@blogger.com