The Geometry of Culture: Mapping Memetic Space

A Beginner's Guide to Culture Science

Also known as "memetics", it's the study of the narratives that shape human behavior, and how they propagate & evolve

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Dan Sperber, Explaining Culture

The truth 🤣

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Stairway to ... Somewhere

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No Alternative — Real Life

How culture jamming was culture-jammed

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Get the latest news and updates on art, literature, music, travel, and history in a fun and interesting way.

Scares me so much.

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Links on Status and Culture - January 2024

Read to the end for a longer essay critiquing Ted Gioia's idea of Macro vs. Micro cultures that explains why we get confused about niches and countercultures Personal News I’m spending 2024 writing a new book — a cultural history of the first 25 years of the 21st century.

Incels Won the Culture War

Looksmaxxing. Redpilled. Sigma. Mogging. Cope. Seethe. Malding. Goyslop. Gooning. Memes from image boards became cultural foundation for Generation Alpha. …

Modern problems require outstanding moves

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Memetics Timeline

The material here is partly derived from the "History of memetics" chapter in my 2011 "Memetics" book - and partly derived from my memetics booklist.

Memetics - Introductory chapter

Here's the first chapter of my book on memetics - which is out now. Introduction - A brief guide to this book We will start with a bri...

The Map Is Not the Territory

The map is not the territory reminds us that our mental models of the world are not the same as the world itself. It cautions against confusing our abstractions and representations with the complex, ever-­shifting reality they aim to describe.