Re: Durkheim redux

From: Chris Taylor (christ@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 14 Apr 2005 - 00:03:31 GMT

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    Cultural memes can be regenerated by artefacts according to a posse on here yes? Is pop art culture? Is 'natural' art? Is Nature itself? Where is the demarcation between culture and environment? This is a meaningless distinction.

    Bill Spight wrote:
    > Dear Chris,
    >
    >> cf. the extensive recent stuff on artefacts and ~meme (which means
    >> not the trivial dinner party 'cultural virion' conception)
    >> [re]generation, as I mentioned in parentheses previously. It's not
    >> all about backwards baseball caps y'know.
    >
    >
    > I did a search for ~meme, and found this from 2001:
    >
    > Chris:
    >
    >> essentially I see my units (~memes) as coherent chunks of
    >> information which have a meaning in some context.
    >
    >
    > Those who claim that the mind or self is composed solely of memes are
    > making claims about cultural determinism. Your more general term, ~meme,
    > is not relevant to that discussion.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > Bill
    >
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