Bravo.
Eva-- you have no idea how wide my smile was when I read your post.
I not only agree whole heartedly with what you have observed, but will
add that this is the only *responsible* way we can look at memetics,
especially in light of work done by Toni Morrison, Trinh T Minh-ha,
Martha Gever and many more. In the past I have accused some church
members of virtually ignoring the entire globe of post modernism. You
have thankfully proven me wrong.
Alexander wrote:
One can ascribe the level of `memetic
symptom' directly upon meme-complexes, of which memes themselves are
the primary constituant, supported by belief, action and behaviour
(which, themselves, make up part of meme-complexes but are not memes,
themselves.) The problem with that analysis is that it leaves us
nowhere more `useful,' it merely changes the names on a few things but
is not, to use a term from a friend of mine, `revealatory'[2] in any
meaningful way, it gives us no more mental `hooks' to move the idea of
ideas around with
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It is a subtle name change, but it imparts a necessary distinction. I
suspect if Eva had been posting in the days of the "Does God Exist?"
thread, it would not have reached the levels of sheer absurdity that it
did. (not that sheer absurdity is bad-- I found it entertaining at
times.)
Now for something completely different.
I am passing on this link.
Kaos Theatre Research in Australia has assembled an interactive journal.
LIMEN - THE INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE JOURNAL
http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/limen/
Advisory Editors: Eugenio Barba, Richard Gough, Jaron Lanier, Peggy
Phelan, Jean-Marie Pradier.
*****CONTENTS*****
ETHNOSCENOLOGY: The Biology and Culture of Human Performing
Behavior
- by Jean-Marie Pradier
GESTALT AND PERFORMANCE
- by Phillip Brownell
PERFORMANCE AND FAITH
- by Christian Mendenhall
DAHMER'S AUDIENCES
- by Mark Pizzato
MOUTHPLACE
- Hypermedia Scholarship from Richard Povall and Jools Gilson-Ellis
POST-SYMBOLIC LANIER
- Mark Jones interviews VR pioneer and LIMEN Advisory Editor Jaron
Lanier
LISTENING TO IMAGES
- LIMEN Editor David George interviews David Williams
JUST PUT YOUR QUESTIONS IN THIS CARDBOARD BOX
- Richard Murphet critiques the latest ISTA
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