1st Edition
Information Rhetorics Memetics and the Dream of Reverse Engineering Nature and Culture
1 Introduction to Memetica: A Contemporary Rhetoric of Information
2 Heuristic toward Everything
3 Memetics as Heuristic Rhetoric
4 Memetica as a Complex Signifying Ecology
5 Information Rhetorics: Holistic and Differentiated
6 Memetica Otherwise/Critiqued
7 Memetica Applied: Economics, Spirituality, Social Theory
8 Conclusion and What’s Next
Index
Biography
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter writes philosophy and poetry. He teaches at Oakland University, USA, and consults and coaches at Sollars and Associates, Michigan, USA. Bennett-Carpenter is the author of Death in Documentaries (2018) and Explaining Jesus (2019). His current project is on how humans live.
"I like books that take on big topics and expertly synthesize understandings from diverse fields. Carpenter deals with the whole world and explores how we can best understand this as an "ecology of information." He shows how such an approach guides us to ask new questions about our world."
-- Rick Szostak, University of Alberta, Canada
"An all-encompassing attempt to conceptualize unity, diversity, and complexity in contemporary contexts. An important brick in the emerging building of memetics. This project is as ambitious as that of Vernadsky’s Noosphere."
-- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Professor of Philosophy, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait
“A book that shows that the meme is an object of rhetoric and not an object of science.”
-- David Krakauer, President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute, USA
