(2023-03-26) Limberg Meme To Vibe A Philosophical Report

Peter Limberg: Meme to Vibe: A Philosophical Report. The consensus is that the word is an overused catchall, engendering many lazy phrases: the vibes are off, it’s not a vibe, such a vibe, don't doubt your vibe, just vibe, etc. All this vibe talk was getting too much for some.

The word did not go away in 2021. It will stay in 2023. Robin James, a feminist philosopher and critical theorist, is optimistic about a “vibe episteme” forming, arguing that the word’s popularity is a form of “lay phenomenology.”

The word vibe is best understood as a “mongrel concept,” a term Ned Block, a philosopher in Consciousness Studies, uses to refer to a word that jumbles up many concepts while pointing to numerous phenomena

This mongrel concept is a portal from propositional to non-propositional knowledge.

here is what I sense is happening with the “overuse” of vibe-related words: a “vibe consciousness” is collectively forming

The recent focus on vibes postdates another mongrel concept in cultural use: memes.

Science writer Tor Nørretranders coined exformation, an abbreviation of explicitly discarded information

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