Love your writing (however infrequent, it's that much more of a treat when I see a post here), ordered a digital since it's such a limited supply right now and hard copy isn't such a huge priority. I've been very interested in discourses around attention and the flow of ideas, so this sounds amazing. Thank you!
I encountered a discussion of this book and its ideas in a New Yorker article. Although I haven't had the pleasure of reading it yet, I found its central idea, that there are some ideas that are highly resistant to spreading or being retained, very interesting. After some thought, it occurred to me that perhaps the most fundamental and powerful anti-mimetic idea is the one identified by existentialist philosophy: the reality of one's own death, which, these thinkers say, is constantly being pushed out of one's own sight and reduced in public settings to a kind of bland, obstructive generality. Yet to keep this fact in view may have a transformative, even transcendent effect on one's life - transcendent, that is, of the mass culture that threatens to swallow us up.
I don't know if the book deals with this idea at all or if it is really relevant. Perhaps it is just a different line of thought. But I thought I would share it.
I do talk a bit about death in the book! Love your extension of its implications here. Thanks for sharing and I hope you enjoy the book when it comes out.
I am so happy there are people taking these ideas seriously and pushing these lines of inquiry further. Very good work, definitely gonna read your book, keep it up.
I’m finding it difficult to discern whether we’re talking about self-limiting ideas or simply the act of limiting access—private Google Docs, group chats, deliberate secrecy. And if we’re talking about self-limiting ideas—those that vanish because of cognitive overload or psychological discomfort—then aren’t these limits better understood as relational, emerging in the interaction between the idea and the mind, rather than as inherent properties of the ideas themselves? One person’s antimeme is another’s meme.
i mean, like, yes, pre-ordered immediately
Love your writing (however infrequent, it's that much more of a treat when I see a post here), ordered a digital since it's such a limited supply right now and hard copy isn't such a huge priority. I've been very interested in discourses around attention and the flow of ideas, so this sounds amazing. Thank you!
Thank you! I try to prioritize quality over quantity of writing :)
Just order 10 books, I know my friend will request this !
Looking forward to read this.
Magda
Yes!! I haven't thought about "There Is No Antimemetics Division" in YEARS. I can't believe it became a novel! Buying your book literally right now.
I encountered a discussion of this book and its ideas in a New Yorker article. Although I haven't had the pleasure of reading it yet, I found its central idea, that there are some ideas that are highly resistant to spreading or being retained, very interesting. After some thought, it occurred to me that perhaps the most fundamental and powerful anti-mimetic idea is the one identified by existentialist philosophy: the reality of one's own death, which, these thinkers say, is constantly being pushed out of one's own sight and reduced in public settings to a kind of bland, obstructive generality. Yet to keep this fact in view may have a transformative, even transcendent effect on one's life - transcendent, that is, of the mass culture that threatens to swallow us up.
I don't know if the book deals with this idea at all or if it is really relevant. Perhaps it is just a different line of thought. But I thought I would share it.
Congratulations on the book and take care.
I do talk a bit about death in the book! Love your extension of its implications here. Thanks for sharing and I hope you enjoy the book when it comes out.
i’m gonna buy a hard copy in a few months from now and read it. i really like underground sleeper hits… im excited
I am so happy there are people taking these ideas seriously and pushing these lines of inquiry further. Very good work, definitely gonna read your book, keep it up.
Omgggggg so excited for this. Just ordered three. PUMPED
Fanstatic domain!!! Pre-oredered!
Thank you
congratulations - looking forward to reading :)
Really looking forward to it! Just ordered :)!
Congratulations, the project sound very interesting! I’m hooked. And just ordered the book.
🐝🍄🌏🎶
I’m finding it difficult to discern whether we’re talking about self-limiting ideas or simply the act of limiting access—private Google Docs, group chats, deliberate secrecy. And if we’re talking about self-limiting ideas—those that vanish because of cognitive overload or psychological discomfort—then aren’t these limits better understood as relational, emerging in the interaction between the idea and the mind, rather than as inherent properties of the ideas themselves? One person’s antimeme is another’s meme.
Yes, exactly! That's what this book is about.
Nice.
Some other book ideas: https://substack.com/@mupetblast/p-150181592