Douglas Selvage

Douglas Selvage is an historian and Project Director in the Education and Research Division of the Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Berlin. He is currently completing a book with Dr. Walter Süß on the Stasi, human rights and the Helsinki Process, 1973-1989.

Memetic engineering: conspiracies, viruses and historical agency

Ideas, just like viruses or organisms, do not spontaneously generate, even if certain historical circumstances make the rise and spread of a given idea more likely.

By Douglas Selvage

/ 22 Oct 2015