Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time. Continue reading Encoding Culture
Tag: metamorphosis
Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems. Continue reading Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
A view from the periphery on the tribal self-validation of academic cliques. Continue reading The Tribal Self-Validation of Academic Cliques
Conflict as mandatory error of social self-replication
Systems-theoretical analyses of human conflict suggest that it may be an inevitable error or fault in the self-replication of those complex patterns of information and energy that we recognise as society, technology and historical metamorphosis. Continue reading Conflict as mandatory error of social self-replication
Selfies as Memes, Memes as Cultural Selfies
Selfies are memes and memes are cultural selfies through which a logic and self-replication of the question of individual or cultural self-identity reproduces itself. Continue reading Selfies as Memes, Memes as Cultural Selfies
Culture: Gothic Complexity
The primary purpose of cultural systems, sub-systems and sub- or counter-cultures is also their primary method. That is (and fundamentally): the replication of the process of self-replication. Continue reading Culture: Gothic Complexity
Semantic Drift
The extent to which errors of replication are responsible for longue durée cultural, subjective and semantic metamorphosis remains an intriguing possibility… Continue reading Semantic Drift
