It is substantial to take into account Benjamin's mimetic theory of language and a messianic history of materialism as an alternative to a psychological notion of mimicry. This perspective reinforces the political theology and its discourse ethics of responsibility and the Other (Levinas)....
Applying Rene Girard's mimetic theory to film, scholars of film, literature, and other humanities discuss Bunuel's apocalypse now; on fiction and truth: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing; passing "The Imitation Game:" ex machina, the ethical, and mimetic theory; femina ex machina; look...
A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009 Low mimetic is likewise a non-heroic register, a register of realism in the representation of an individual’s relationship to society. Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009 Kant also assumes that although our pleasure in beauty should be a respon...
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Mimetic desire (MD), the spontaneous propensity to pursue goals that others pursue, is a case of social influence that is believed to shape preferences. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is defined by both atypical interests and altered social interaction.
. Many scholars also accused him of deserting the realm of literature when he later expanded his mimetic theory in the direction of anthropological and biblical analysis. Such criticism led to the observation that, as a trained historian, he was just as unqualified in the field of comparative ...
In the past, electrochemical sensors based on natural enzymes have been developed, but the drawbacks of natural enzymes such as complicated preparation, difficult purification, poor catalytic activity and stability, which limit their research and application. In recent years, numerous studies have found...
As objects of play, toys seem to be inextricably bound up with mimesis: a child plays 'make believe', for example, with a doll or toy cart. But as I will show, Plato has a very different conception of toys from the modern one which tends to conceive of play as essentially mimetic. ...
To place Benjamin within mimetic modernism I will first adumbrate what I call linguistic magic in the context of modernist literature, ethnological and linguistic theory. Secondly, I will describe the modernist fascination with the body in and through which mimesis takes place. The third...