Next time, I'm planning to investigate the notion of mimetic desire - unless there's anywhere else you'd rather visit first. The Guardian World News 2010 In English these are called mimetic words, or a mimesis, but who knows what that means anyway? JapanNewbie 2009 Some of the ads were...
Complex examples exhibit groups struggling for power and privilege within or between members of communities as they vie over "objects of desire" such as status, land, water, or representations of power and pecuniary interests. For some Chamula, mimetic rivalry works to deny resemblances with ...
specifically his view that “the mimicry of mantises …illustrates… the human desire to recover its original insensate condition” (Roger Caillois, “The Praying Mantis: From Biology to Psychoanalysis,” inThe Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader, ed. Claudine Frank...
A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature...
quality of the informa- tion the agent has available at the moment t. This information has to do with the set of fundamentals which, following the Walrasian logic referred to above, can have an influence on the value of the dividends at t + n, namely, the future preferences of consumers...