1.2b On Jealousy: Character as a System of Memes

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Scripting for Agency

Katarina Ranković

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Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a lecture series based on Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies. New episodes every Sunday and Thursday until 14.12.25. YouTube series: https://bit.ly/sfa-series Thesis PDF: https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf Thesis art: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

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1.2b On Jealousy: Character as a System of Memes

Scripting for Agency

27 minutes 3 seconds

2 months ago

1.2b On Jealousy: Character as a System of Memes

About this Episode

In this episode, we explore the idea of character as a contagious system of memes—cultural patterns that spread and evolve like genes. Building on the concept of jealousy introduced earlier, this video investigates how our identities are shaped by memetic inheritance, and how imitation, expression, and transmission make us part of a shared cultural lineage. Drawing from Dawkins, Dennett, Goffman, and personal performance experiments, it asks: Are we the authors of our character, or its hosts?

About this Series

Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a video lecture series based on Dr Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies.

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Series Playlist: https://bit.ly/sfa-series

PhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf

Thesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

References

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- Dawkins, Richard. “Viruses of the Mind.” In Dennett and his Critics, edited by Bo Dahlbom, 13–27. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

- Dennett, Daniel C. Freedom Evolves. New York: Viking, 2003.

- Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1959.

- Warner, Marina. Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

- Stokel-Walker, Chris. “Welcome to the Metaverse.” New Scientist, January 8, 2022, 39–43.

- Offeh, Harold. Lounging, photographic series, 2017–2020.

- Wex, Marianne. Let’s Take Back Our Space: Female and Male Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures. West Germany: Frauenliteratur Hermine Fees, 1979.

- Ranković, Slavica and Miloš. “A Formula is a Habit Colliding with Life.”

- Merriam-Webster. “Breathing Life into ‘Inspire’.” Last modified September 22, 2017.