Memetics

Memetics is the study of memes.

Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
The Meme Machine
The Selfish Gene
There Is No Antimemetics Division
The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment
Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
The Art of Memetics (Pirate Edition)
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Collaborative Society
Richard Dawkins
“ [W]e may now be on the threshold of a new kind of genetic takeover. DNA replicators built 'survival machines' for themselves — the bodies of living organisms including ourselves. As part of their equipment, bodies evolved onboard computers — brains. Brains evolved the capacity to communicate with other brains by means of language and cultural traditions. But the new milieu of cultural tradition opens up new possibilities for self-replicating entities. The new replicators are not DNA and they are ...more ”
― Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Susan Blackmore
“ If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine. ...more ”
― Susan J. Blackmore, The Meme Machine

More quotes...
/Path Of Light/ Non-fictional, literary, and instructional book club for nationalists. Feel free to add items to…more
9 members, last active 10 years ago