'Memetica is the Big Drama we're all acting within, against, or alongside now.'

​-Memetica Ecological project notes, 26 Sept 2020

'It is everyday life which measures and embodies the changes which take place "somewhere else", in the "higher realms".'  

-H. Lefebvre, in The Everyday (Johnstone, ed.), p. 32

​https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/everyday

'Memento vivere is the question of how we live within, or in interaction with, memetica ecologica.

What are the particular ideas and actions that make up our lives within, or in interaction with, our 'world' of embodied information?

Our brains and bodies (they are one) DO.  What do they do?  Their actions have effects.  What are those effects?  The effects (of those actions) calcify and become routines and artifacts.  What are those routines?  What are those artifacts?'

​-Memento Vivere project notes, 4 Oct 2020

'while enthusiastic or ecstatic elements are included in what I take to be transformative, I include much more mundane and graduated development as also a part of "transformative experience"'

-DD, ​p. 22

'...despite our global connectivity, an individual may struggle just as much as ever, or even more, to feel connected with other people.'

-Gibelyou & Northrop, Big Ideas​, p. 242

'The phenomenon/a is/are Memetica Ecologica.

That's the complex phenomenon/a that needs multiple disciplines to try to understand.

​-Participant observation field work from the social sciences
-Poetic/Semiotic sensibility and rhetorical analysis from the humanities
-Archeological and experimental work -- or reporting of such work -- from the natural sciences
-And contributions from the professions.'

-Memetica Ecologica project notes, 26 Sept 2020, adapted

'I use the terminology of "experience" as a "sensitizing concept" (Blumer 1954) that refers generally to the totality of phenomena as negotiated by human individuals and groups, especially as they make those phenomena meaningful in symbols, narratives, and other useful semiotic schemas.'

DD,​ p. 21

'Philosophy always has to recall things that are obvious because people do in fact overlook or even deny them.'

-Sokolowski, Phenom.​, p. 181

'When I talk about memetica ecologica, I do so as something like a rhetorical historiography of the present -- a historiography that is contemporaneous, a form of journalism or field research reporting.  I'm your investigative reporter on the ground but also in the sky -- helicoptering over the scene, except that the view from the sky goes much farther than that -- to a space station or satellite.  And it goes the other way too -- we're on a fantastic voyage through your veins and digging into atoms, etc.

But this historiography is rhetorical, too, in that it is both descriptive and constructive; it instructs and informs, but it also seeks to stimulate and provoke.  I'm ultimately seeking to get you to see things, partly, how I see see them, if only for the time you're reading this.

-Memetica Ecologica project notes, 25 Sept 2020

'If an individual makes a [lingo-based] claim applied to one's self in the context of a [specific lingo]-user group and then immediately hears vocal affirmation from that group, that individual is likely to use the phrase again shortly thereafter (adapted from Skinner 1948/1992; 1957/2014; 1981; Naour 2009, 10).  For example, in a given verbal community, ...is the response to an individual instance of [lingo] usage a smile and an open body posture or a frown and a closed posture?  Or is it something else?

-XJ​, p. 98, adapted