Re: Memetics or artefactics?

Mario Vaneechoutte (Mario.Vaneechoutte@rug.ac.be)
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:44:16 +0200

Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:44:16 +0200
From: Mario Vaneechoutte <Mario.Vaneechoutte@rug.ac.be>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Memetics or artefactics?

Britta Waschgler wrote:

> Please remove us from your mailing list
>
> thank you
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Mario Vaneechoutte <Mario.Vaneechoutte@rug.ac.be>
> An: memetics@mmu.ac.uk <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Datum: Montag, 7. September 1998 15:58
> Betreff: Memetics or artefactics?
>
> >Mario wrote:
> >
> >> Studying artefacts will learn us nothing if we can't look inside the
> >mind. E.g.,
> >> cave paintings of females by Cro Magnon people have been interpreted
> >as
> >being
> >> part of fertility rites, while another more recent explanation says
> >that it might
> >> be just as well porn graffitti of male adolescents. What do artefacts
> >learn you?

Why do they always pick on me?

Mario

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