And how could I forget George Lakoff (Metaphor) and Foucault (Word and Object).
On 5/14/08, ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ron, > The obvious ones would be > Susan Blackmore - "The Meme Machine" the primer, without doubt, then > Dan Dennett - "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and/or "Freedom Evolves" > and/or his latest tome in the recently topical Faith debate "Breaking > the Spell" > > But in fact you can detach the subject from the language (we are not > SOMists remember) - the concept existed long before the coining of the > neologism "meme" by Dawkins. Look at "mimesis" in much other / older > literature - E O Wilson, Owen Barfield, W V O Quine, Umberto Eco, Doug > Hofstadter, ring bells off the top of my head (and dare I say, just > about any FoggyFroggy PoMo). > > When reading about meme's specifically in the technical sense - > written by SOMist scientists and scientific-style philosophers, keep > your MoQish hat on - don't get hung-up on the "atomist" - " > reductionist", "objectivist" slippery slope. Remember the arising of > layers of meaning. > > (The reason I like Sue, is that she is very open-minded and also very > Zen - even though she hasn't joined the dots with her "serious" > scientific colleagues, except possibly Hofstadter - possibly an > occupational "social" hazard of being taken seriously as an > intellectual. Read some background about her on her website.) > > Regards > Ian > > On 5/14/08, Ron Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ian: > > I'm a > > memeticist as you may have noticed.) > > > > Ron: > > Ian, I have been reading up on Memetics since you posted > > This and it sounds very interesting. Besides the "selfish > > Gene" by Dawkins, is there any other reading you would > > Recommend? > > thanks > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
