Anti-Mimetic Ideas for 2023

Cooking with no recipes, selecting records, anti-memes, and more.

Luke Burgis
8 min readDec 11, 2022

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Yes, those are salmon crossing a flooded street.

One of the most popular editions in this newsletter’s short history is the article “25 Anti-Mimetic Ideas”, which I published last December — so I figured I’d start a tradition and share a few more.

Being anti-mimetic doesn’t mean being a “contrarian”; it means being resistant to…

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Luke Burgis

Author of “WANTING: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life.” Find more at read.lukeburgis.com