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Mimetic Posthumanism: Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics: Critical Posthumanisms, cartea 5

Nidesh Lawtoo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2024
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004520561
ISBN-10: 9004520562
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Critical Posthumanisms


Notă biografică

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).

Cuprins

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