Mimetic Posthumanism

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).

• 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