From: Kenneth Van Oost (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Mon 28 Mar 2005 - 19:03:05 GMT
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From: Price, Ilfryn <I.Price@shu.ac.uk>
> Are you saying memes are discourses (sensu Derrida an co). If so I am in
full agreement.
>
> I haven't got round to your book yet, though I confess to using the title
as a section header in mine (Price and Shaw 1998 p162)
> and I have just submitted 'The Selfish Signifier' to J Memetics.
> As a matter of record whoever reviewed our book for Oxford University
press found 'the selfish meme', and various others which we
> proposed 'too cute" - that was ca 1996 so the world of academic publishing
seems to have moved on or the meme meme has mutated
> sufficiently to invade it.
Discourses in the sense that memes, at least the ones we ended up with,
' hide ' a whole bunch of other ( memes, meaning, performances, etc ).
In such a sense, yes memes are ' representations ' of ' discourses ' yet to
unfold. In the ways we speak, write, etc..we unfold each time again and
again " the hidden discourses " that are behind each meme known to us.
Regards,
Kenneth
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