Footnotes» Chapter One

Footnote 22

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:29:24 +0000

Lynch, Aaron. (1996) Thought Contagion. In this book, his analysis of Mormonism through the lens of memetics places emphasis on generational transmission, and highlights these factors as evolutionary pressures.

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Footnote 21

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:08:23 +0000

Marx, K and Engles, F. in “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas”

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Footnote 20

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:56:20 +0000

Or that the communication methods themselves are predisposed toward carrying a specific type of “social change” meme – twitter, for example, was predisposed to carry a ‘twitter revolution’ meme, regardless of any real world situation.

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Footnote 19

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:24:50 +0000

A capsid is the outer protein shell of a virus, responsible for protecting the internal operating system of the virus, detecting suitable surrounding carriers for viral infection (i.e. cell walls) and for forming an opening into the suitable carriers. In memetics, the capsid is referring to the casing of a meme, or the point of contact which enables the adoption of the meme.

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Footnote 18

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:25:13 +0000

Teilhard writes of the unfolding of the material cosmos, from primordial particles to the development of life, human beings and the noosphere, and finally to his vision of the singularity.

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1959) The Phenomena of Man

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Footnote 17

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:21:14 +0000

The teleconference is also an ideal interface for a mastermind group working non-locally, especially when supplemented with file and document sharing online.

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Footnote 16

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The Layers of a Meme

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Footnote 15

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model of trend growth

Anderson, Chris. (2006) The Long Tail.

Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

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Footnote 14

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:25:40 +0000

Appendix I describes in more detail what a sigil is and the process behind acts of sigilization. Eventually this will be part of the primary text, but for now you can read the uncorrected version here.

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Footnote 13

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:47:16 +0000

This is, indeed, a shout-out: Rigorous Intuition is an interesting example of apophenionic symbology and hyperstition at play. Commentary on a culture and it’s institutions has become a kind of myth-making in its own right, and this particular blog deconstructs contemporary events in a very unique way.

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Footnote 12

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:40:17 +0000

Currently this is a topic receiving serious attention from some people. We highly recommend these books by Howard Bloom as fascinating looks at behaviors of social groups as super-organisms:

The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

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Footnote 11

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:32:28 +0000

Further Reading on Terministic Screens and Reality Tunnels:

On Symbols and Society (Heritage of Sociology Series) – Kenneth Burke

Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World – Robert Anton Wilson

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Footnote 9

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:01:56 +0000

We will be spelling Magick as magic for the entirety of this book.

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Footnote 8

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:58:18 +0000

Paco Xander Nathan’s discussion on corporate metabolism is highly recommended, and can be read here, at Tripzine

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Footnote 7

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:48:38 +0000

Think and Grow Rich is now in the public domain, which means I can embed the entire book here for you to read. In particular, be sure to read chapter 5 and chapter 14, in as much as those chapters deal specifically with aspects of a Master Mind Group (or Mastermind, as they’ve come to be called in today’s social marketing circles).

Napoleon Hill- think and grow rich

Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Tutorial Spirituality guide help

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Footnote 6

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:53:03 +0000

The interesting thing is that if computer viruses had been more widespread in the seventies when Richard Dawkins wrote this book, he might have used viruses and worms as a depiction of non-biological evolution rather than coining the term “meme.” See his speech here.

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Footnote 5

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:37:06 +0000

Ellwood, Taylor, (2008) Multi-Media Magic, p.90. He comes to this definition after not one, but two chapters dealing with the range of definitions that have attempted to limit and contain the term Magic.

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Footnote 10

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:15:06 +0000

Known to its practitioners as NLP, and referenced as such throughout the text – more an art than a science.

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