Re: Morris, Lydon provide witty fun in verbal dance

From: Bruce Howlett (brucehowlett@northnet.com.au)
Date: Thu 13 Mar 2003 - 20:29:31 GMT

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    snip: Even those who still harbor the erroneous imagination that memes are in the mind (where they really can't do anything, d'uh),

    Wade, memes don't do anything most of the time! The "process" of being infected by a meme is one "doing" bit. The process of replicating and transferring is another "doing" bit. Most of the time they hang around in the brain as a "belief", or on bits of paper, celluloid, choreographer's notes, etc. waiting to infect someone. I thought this was fairly widely understood, or am I the odd one?

    Regards,

    Bruce Howlett

      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Wade T. Smith
      To: Memetics Listserv
      Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:48 PM
      Subject: Fwd: Morris, Lydon provide witty fun in verbal dance

      I won't clutter up your mailboxes with the whole article (it's bad
      enough, dealing with the digests, getting through all the endless
      replication of entire previous messages- the main reason I don't and
      only excerpt those passages I'm directly responding to- I was born here
      on the net, after all, in the 300 baud era, and then, the also endless
      amount of posts here that are in html format- Bruce- filter that
      crap!), but, I think it's an important article, if one looks at
      memetics and culture from the creative viewpoint, and, hey, IMHO,
      that's a very important perspective.

      It's a small article in the Boston Globe today about an interview with
      Mark Morris, the choreographer, and seminal performer and alterer of
      the cultural landscape, which is, after all, what memetics is all
      about. Even those who still harbor the erroneous imagination that memes
      are in the mind (where they really can't do anything, d'uh), might
      enjoy reading about how Morris develops his memes (performances).

      http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/072/living/
      Morris_Lydon_provide_witty_fun_in_verbal_danceP.shtml

      - Wade

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