This is a series of “book reviews” about literature that is relevant to cliology’s orientation, but more importantly, they distil out what is in it for practical memetics and cliology as the populational level spreading novel eusocial cultural ideas.
These reviews are taken only with a semi-academic voice mainly from the point of view of cultural evolutionary psychology, contextual behavioural science and so on. They are not about evaluating the scholarly merits of any given theory or literature for its own sake, but rather the value that such a theory would have for practical cultural intervention. They concentrate on content that can be applied, leaving the empirical aspects and details as references for the reader to pursue.
The kind of books that have been admitted to these reviews stem from the orientation and come from clusters of readings around the theoretical underpinnings of cliology. What I am reviewing happens to be what I have just finished reading, but a long list of candidates can be found in the clio-bibliography. They might be pigeon-holded for convenience as follows:
- Chaos and complexity, network science, maths
- Evolution and Biology
- Psychology, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Cultural Evolutionary Psychology
- Memetics
- Behavioural Economics
- Persuasion, influence, propaganda, thought-shaping
- Logic and argumentation
- Sales, advertising, marketing, PR, consumer behaviour, negotiation
- Organisational theory, management science, Business
- Strategy, Tactics, War
- Contextual Behavioural Science, Behaviourism
- Psychotherapy, NLP, TA, Hypnosis etc.
- Religion, Cults, Magic and Illusion, mindfulness etc.
They are not in a strict format, yet generally follow the thread of :
- Introduction
- Overview
- Dissection
- Clioanalysis
The introduction looks at the justification for admission as a review for cliology. The overview explains what the text is about in its own right while the dissection explores, on a chapter by chapter basis, the material presented as relating to cultural evolutionary psychology, memetics and other related theoretical takeaways. Case studies are omitted from the reviews. The clioanalysis section goes into why the text is related to cliology. Particular emphasis is given to how the literature enhances cliological models, but more importantly how practical applications and tooling may be derived.