From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Tue 27 May 2003 - 20:26:13 GMT
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Joe wrote:
> It does NOT deny agency to performance; that's how memes get
> proliferated. But they are nevertheless memes before, during and after
> their proliferation, both within minds (cognitive encoding) and between
> them (speaking, writing, demonstration, and other performance-
> encodings.)
I always seek conciliation, and here is an opening.
I like that phrase, "they are memes before, during, and after". This is
more definitional than procedural, and the performance model is pretty
strictly a procedural model willing to wander around with a few
definitions, so here's its adaptation of this phrase.
Meme t1- ideation/cognitive gestalt (performer)
Meme t2- performance/cognitive gestalt/venue
Meme t3- observation/cognitive gestalt
NB that the ideation during t1 (in the cognitive gestalt of the
performer) is not necessarily mirrored or replicated through the
observation (by the cognitive gestalt of the observer) in t3, and only
t2 can supply cultural meaning (by establishing the parameters of
performance).
This is the performance model of cultural evolution, and, locating
memetic agencies by temporal and agent location
- Wade
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