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1. Re: The Cloud and Dog lovers who need to lighten up...
A new meme is born!
It ain't Hitler, but at least it's a dachshund.
Woof... kaff, kafff!
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2. Re: The Cloud and Dog lovers who need to lighten up...
yikes.. I had to look up the definition of meme...
and immediately thought of semiotic ...( my fave is umberto eco's textbook )....
Umberto cracks me up...
Anyway, here's a quick result of googling meme and semiotic...
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http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/semiotics/srb/10-3edit.html
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To state my conclusion at the outset: Memes are signs, or more accurately, sign vehicles (or representamens, to use Charles Peirce's clumsy but precise terminology). They are not some intangible essence that is passed from brain to brain when something is copied. Signs are concrete things, or events, or processes and they have been categorized and studied systematically for centuries. Memes are thus the subject of a body of theory called Semiotics!
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4. Re: The Cloud and Dog lovers who need to lighten up...
Ewee - mimes scare me.
About as much as a "killer clown" does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRPiwKCQWfA
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