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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 updated 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.

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Author:   Nidesh Lawtoo
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004520561

ISBN 10:   9004520562
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   31 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Figures 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

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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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