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Cosmic Topologies of Imitation: From the Horror of Digital Autotoxicus to the Auto-Toxicity of the Social

 

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1 Parikka and Sampson, The Spam Book, 15, and Sampson, Virality, 127–143.

2 Langlois and Elmer, “The Research Politics of Social Media Platforms.”

3 Ibid., 5.

4 Nagy, A History of Modern Immunology, 241.

5 Ibid., 241.

6 Schwartz, “Review of The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?”

7 Parikka and Sampson, The Spam Book.

8 Ibid., 15.

9 Ibid.

10 Tarde, The Laws of Imitation.

11 Tarde, Penal Philosophy, 116–118.

12 Caillois, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia.”

13 Thrift, “Pass It On: Towards a Political Economy of Propensity,” and Arvidsson and Malossi, “Customer Co-Production from Social Factory to Brand: Learning from Italian Fashion.”

14 Drenten, “Snapshots of the self: exploring the role of online mobile photo sharing in identity development among adolescent girls,” 15.

15 Ibid., 6.

16 Ibid., 6.

17 Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 218–19.

18 Ibid., 218–19.

19 Williamson, Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising.

20 Ibid., 63–64.

21 Ibid., 63.

22 Ibid., 48.

23 Ibid., 63.

24 Caillois, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia,” 24–25.

25 Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 97.

26 Ibid., 98.

27 Ibid., 104.

28 Ibid., 100.

29 Caillois, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia (1936),” 28.

30 Kramer et al., “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks.”

31 Carr, “The Manipulators: Facebook’s Social Engineering Project.”

32 Ibid.

33 Ibid.

34 Sampson and Parikka, “Learning from Network Dysfunctionality: Accidents, Enterprise, and Small Worlds of Infection.”

35 Sampson and Parikka, “Learning from Network Dysfunctionality,” 457.

36 Ibid., 457.

37 Caillois, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia (1936),” 25.

38 Ibid.

39 Parikka, Insect Media, 140–44.

40 Ibid., 141.

41 Ellis and Tucker, The Social Psychology of Emotion, 178.

42 Ibid., 171–179.

43 Greenfield, Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, 81.

44 Ibid., 84.

45 Ibid., 86–87.

46 Ibid., 86.

47 Ellis and Tucker, The Social Psychology of Emotion, 171.

48 Ibid., 172.

49 Ibid., 173.

50 Ibid., 174.

51 Ibid., 175.

52 Ibid., 175.

53 Ibid., 174

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Tony D. Sampson

Tony D. Sampson is reader in digital cultures and communication at the University of East London. His publications include The Spam Book, coedited with Parikka (Hampton Press, 2009), Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and Affect and Social Media, coedited with Ellis and Maddison (Rowman and Littlefield Int, 2018). Tony is a co-founder of Club Critical Theory in Southend, Essex and Director of the EmotionUX Lab at UEL. Email: [email protected]

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