Mimetic Posthumanism

Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-24
Mått:155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:729 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Posthumanisms
Antal sidor:350
Förlag:Brill
Medarbetare:Nidesh Lawtoo
ISBN:9789004520561

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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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List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsMimetic Posthumanism: An IntroductionNidesh LawtooPosthuman Mimesis: A Dialogic Prelude with Katherine HaylesN. Katherine Hayles and Nidesh LawtooPart 1The Mimetic Turn in Posthuman Art1 Alchemical Shadows: Homo Mimeticus and Eidolons of Artificial IntelligencePatricia Pisters2 Toward Posthuman Aesthetics: The Flesh of the World in Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur and The Thinking RobotNikoleta Zampaki and Peggy Karpouzou3 From the Parasite to the BwO: Subversive Mimicry in Viral ZombiesMaría del Carmen Molina Barea4 Be/Longing in the Digital Divide: A Mimetic Play for Somatic IntimacyMajero Bouman5 Animation and the Mimetic Posthuman: Pandemic Vulnerabilities Mirrored by Music and DanceAndreea StoicescuPart 2Mimetic Re-Turns in Posthuman Philosophy6 A Genealogy for Homo Mimeticus 2.0Nidesh Lawtoo7 Mimicry to Imitation, Mimesis to Simulation: An Evolutionary Outlook on CopyingJean-Marie Schaeffer8 Nietzsche’s Legacy for Posthuman Mimesis: Metamorphoses, Embodiment, and ImmanenceMarina Garcia-Granero9 Mimesis, Posthumanism, and “the Absolute Antecedent”: Some Thoughts on Jacques Derrida’s “Advances”Ivan Callus10 Figuration, or the Desire of the PosthumanStefan HerbrechterPart 3Technics Reloading Mimesis11 Technics and Mimesis: Promethean Self-Knowledge in the AnthropoceneNidesh Lawtoo12 Noomimesis: The Political Economy of the Meaningless SignZeigam Azizov13 Posthuman Agency and Techno-MimetismDiego Scalco14 Imitating Nature through Technology: On Mimesis, Innovation, and Environmental Ethics in the AnthropocenePhilipp Höfele15 ai and Reverse Mimesis: From Human Imitation to Human Subjugation?Kevin LaGrandeurCoda: Philosophical and Mimetic Posthumanism: A DialogueFrancesca Ferrando and Nidesh LawtooIndex