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DNA – Snakes and Ladders
Attend to your influences.
I suppose this is the ur-message - to be more aware of what’s influencing you and how. Acknowledge just how much of what you think, feel and do is picked up from others, consciously and unconsciously, and try to become more conscious of more of them. Artists pay attention to this because they love their influences, while
Ok, a few reflections on the book:
1. qntm defines antimemes as self-erasing information, but this book has a different (but related) definition of the concept: antimemes are (a) high-impact and (b) low transmissibility. Roughly, they are "important secrets".
2. The low transmissibility can... See more
Nabeel S. Qureshix.comWhat’s interesting is not ideas per se, but the way you combine them in your own unique way. What’s interesting is intertextuality, i.e. the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text, the relation of texts with other texts, how they form a web of influence and connections: allusions, quotations, pastiche, influence, plagiarism... Writing is like... See more