[-empyre-] Re: empyre digest, Vol 1 #148 - 6 msgs

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 12:00 +1000 14/6/02, empyre-request@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote:
> does anyone know of anyone who's looked at the idea of memetics
> (dawkins' selfish gene, etc) in relation to blogging?
> i mean, anyone who's said anything intelligent about it?

no but i want my effort at memedom: glocal (global + local) to appear
on bumper stickers internationally by years end. but as the post
brandon quoted mentioned, lévy's stuff on collective intelligence
might be sorta of interesting.

adn though it's not at all about memes, eric michael's 'bad
aboriginal art' has a couple of descriptions of how he considers
australian aboriginal knowledge and its oral basis to be essentially
about intellectual property and so highly relevant to new media. he
describes how knowledge is embodied in images and stories and certain
people have certain rights to certain parts of certain stories and it
is these rights that are the basis of aboriginal culture and
politics. (not sure if any of that made sense.) anyway, it's quite
interesting in relation to blogs where there is a some sort of
similarity in the way that IP is understood to be distributed amongst
a community with certain rights attached.

For instance in Michael's description you can see how it is more
important that who is allowed to know 'x' is more significant than
what 'x' is ostensibly about, per se, and that knowing 'x' involves
reciprocal obligations with others and a duty of care to maintain 'x'
(where x is a story or part of a story which explains
history/identity). That the culture is maintained by the maintenance,
policing, and distribution of the rights to these things, which are
always partial (no one has all the rights). Seems to me that there is
very much something equivalent in blogging where rights to say and
cite are reciprocal and distributed.

cheers
adrian miles
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