Mimetic Posthumanism

Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics

Buch | Hardcover

362 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52056-1 (ISBN)

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Mimetic Posthumanism is a collection of international essays that furthers a mimetic turn in posthuman studies: from imitation to identification, AI simulation to hypermimesis, the all too human tendency to imitate, for good and ill, is now reloaded for the digital age.

It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an update of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo mimeticus. But the mimetic turn in posthuman studies is not limited to A.I.: from simulation to identification, affective contagion to viral mimesis, robotics to hypermimesis, the essays collected in this volume articulate the multiple facets of homo mimeticus 2.0. Challenging rationalist accounts of autonomous originality internal to the history of Homo sapiens, this volume argues from different—artistic, philosophical, technological—perspectives that the all too human tendency to imitate is, paradoxically, central to our ongoing process of becoming posthuman.

Nidesh Lawtoo, Professor of European Literature and Culture at Leiden University, is a philosopher and cultural critic. He is the author of numerous books that open up the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies, including Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation (Leuven UP, 2022).

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Notes on Contributors

Mimetic Posthumanism: An Introduction

Nidesh Lawtoo

Posthuman Mimesis: A Dialogic Prelude with Katherine Hayles

N. Katherine Hayles and Nidesh Lawtoo

Part 1

The Mimetic Turn in Posthuman Art

1 Alchemical Shadows: Homo Mimeticus and Eidolons of Artificial Intelligence

Patricia Pisters

2 Toward Posthuman Aesthetics: The Flesh of the World in Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur and The Thinking Robot

Nikoleta Zampaki and Peggy Karpouzou

3 From the Parasite to the BwO: Subversive Mimicry in Viral Zombies

María del Carmen Molina Barea

4 Be/Longing in the Digital Divide: A Mimetic Play for Somatic Intimacy

Majero Bouman

5 Animation and the Mimetic Posthuman: Pandemic Vulnerabilities Mirrored by Music and Dance

Andreea Stoicescu

Part 2

Mimetic Re-Turns in Posthuman Philosophy

6 A Genealogy for Homo Mimeticus 2.0

Nidesh Lawtoo

7 Mimicry to Imitation, Mimesis to Simulation: An Evolutionary Outlook on Copying

Jean-Marie Schaeffer

8 Nietzsche’s Legacy for Posthuman Mimesis: Metamorphoses, Embodiment, and Immanence

Marina Garcia-Granero

9 Mimesis, Posthumanism, and “the Absolute Antecedent”: Some Thoughts on Jacques Derrida’s “Advances”

Ivan Callus

10 Figuration, or the Desire of the Posthuman

Stefan Herbrechter

Part 3

Technics Reloading Mimesis

11 Technics and Mimesis: Promethean Self-Knowledge in the Anthropocene

Nidesh Lawtoo

12 Noomimesis: The Political Economy of the Meaningless Sign

Zeigam Azizov

13 Posthuman Agency and Techno-Mimetism

Diego Scalco

14 Imitating Nature through Technology: On Mimesis, Innovation, and Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene

Philipp Höfele

15 ai and Reverse Mimesis: From Human Imitation to Human Subjugation?

Kevin LaGrandeur

Coda: Philosophical and Mimetic Posthumanism: A Dialogue

Francesca Ferrando and Nidesh Lawtoo

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Critical Posthumanisms ; 5
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	729 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-52056-2 / 9004520562
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52056-1 / 9789004520561
Zustand	Neuware