What is the Memetic Turn? 2011-08-07 | "The Hanged" from the Tarot Deck of Charles VI., Paris, early 15th century. The symbolism of Tarot - similar to that of alchemy - forms a pre-modern memetic system. Tightly knit into other more or less esoteric programs of meaning, like Qabbalah or astrology, its images are at first illustrative - they picture very well, what can be seen on it, at second they bear an arbitrarily assigned symbolic value. The particular with memes as well as with metaphors is there creating a common space of meaning between several human beings, by which these different beings _identify_ with. “Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialisation and created the individual.”
Das Grundrecht auf Sozialhilfe 2010-02-09 | Artikel 1) Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt.
