Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981130113603.00b2c66c@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:36:03 -0600
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: Memes galore!
In-Reply-To: <SIMEON.9811301108.E@JM1773.livjm.ac.uk>
At 11:21 AM 11/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 11:23:17 -0600 Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net> wrote:
>
>> Balkin, J.M. 1998. _Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology_. Yale
>> University Press.
>
>Yes, I've had a quick flick through this and it seems quite good. I
>couldn't help thinking of old Rashevsky and his mathematical models of
>ideology from the 1950s. Also there were places where Adorno, Fromm
>and even Reich seemed to be lurking.
>
>What did you reckon?
>
>Derek
I like the book too, and would love to discuss it. However, I have a full
plate of travel and projects on my hands. So I just wanted to announce the
book, as I hadn't seen it mentioned on the memetics list yet.
--Aaron Lynch
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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