Book Review: Antimemetics

1 · · Dec. 6, 2025, 8 a.m.
Summary
Source 1. Slippery Ideas Nadia Asparouhova’s Antimemetics is, itself, antimemetic.1 I devoured this book in a few sittings on the bus to work, but if I had to describe it, I really only have a few conceptual handles that I could grasp onto: Memes are ideas that spread easily. Antimemes are ideas that resist spreading. We live in an information ecosystem which is made up of various types of memes. Memes have varying level of impact, salience, and transmissibility. Often the most useful id...