Cultural Evolution and its Discontents by Robert Watson
People worry that computers, robots, or Satan himself - brilliant ruthless creatures - may seize control and destroy what's uniquely valuable about us. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice.-
Literature and Development in North Africa
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Through the Negative
- Voice and Song in Contemporary Greek Myth Retellings
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Joseph Conrad and Honor
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Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
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Authoring the Self
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Revised Lives
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Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor
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Between Profits and Primitivism
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Parsing the City
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Racial Blasphemies
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New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature and Culture
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Representations of Language Learning and Literacy
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Poetry and Culture in Britain, Canada and the United States
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Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence
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Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel
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Reading Words into Worlds
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Batman and the Shadows of Modernity
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Serial Fiction in the Western World
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Menetekel
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The Other Orpheus
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Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning
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Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
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Language in Literature
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Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
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Detective Fiction on the Case of Community
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Transcending Postmodernism
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Female Agents in the Male World of Cold War Spy Novels
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Bangladeshi Novels in English
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Writing the City
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Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing
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Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare
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Embodying Beauty
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The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America
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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel
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Fictional Feminism
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Dissenting Fictions
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Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry
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The Self in the Cell
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The Slave in the Swamp
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The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature
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Double Trouble
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Strange Cases
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Like Parchment in the Fire
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Novel Notions
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The Pictorial Third
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Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
Memeplexes are clusters of ideas and habits that persist in societies often because they can reproduce themselves well rather than because they benefit usWatson’s fiercely intelligent, intelligently fierce book argues that we need the arts, the humanities, and universities to recognize and critique the memeplexes we often do not even realize shape and skew our choices. Drawing on art and science, mixing high culture and low, applying the long perspective to current predicaments, Cultural Evolution and its Discontents teems with ideas, insights, and challenges: not just food for thought but a banquet for the mind and a diet for change. Anyone who weirdly supposes that "evolution" when applied to humans must mean the status quo rather than transformation—transformation we can partly direct—will have to think again.
Brian Boyd, The University of Auckland
Author of 'On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction'
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367476564 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367476568 |
| Title | Cultural Evolution and its Discontents |
| Author | Robert Watson |
| Series | Literary Criticism And Cultural Theory |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2020-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 318 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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