Mimetic posthumanism homo mimeticus 2.0 in art, philosophy and technics edited by Nidesh Lawtoo

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawtoo, Nidesh, editor.

Series:

Critical posthumanisms (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 5.

Critical posthumanisms 1872-0943 volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imitation.

Imitation--Philosophy.

Creative ability.

Imitative Behavior.

Creativity.

creativity.

Medical Subjects:

Imitative Behavior.

Creativity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Homo mimeticus 2.0 in art, philosophy and technics

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston Brill [2025]

Summary:

"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 update 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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Mimetic posthumanism : an introduction / Nidesh Lawtoo

Posthuman mimesis : a dialogic prelude with Katherine Hayles / N. Katherine Hayles and Nidesh Lawtoo

Alchemical shadows : homo mimeticus and eidolons of artificial intelligence / Patricia Pisters

Toward posthuman aesthetics : the flesh of the world in Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur and The Thinking Robot / Nikoleta Zampaki and Peggy Karpouzou

From the parasite to the BwO : subversive mimicry in viral zombies / María del Carmen Molina Barea

Be/ longing in the digital divide : a mimetic play for somatic intimacy / Majero Bouman

Animation and the mimetic posthuman : pandemic vulnerabilities mirrored by music and dance / Andreea Stoicescu

A genealogy for homo mimeticus 2.0 / Nidesh Lawtoo

Mimicry to imitation, mimesis to simulation : an evolutionary outlook on copying / Jean-Marie Schaeffer

Nietzsche’s legacy for posthuman mimesis : metamorphoses, embodiment, and immanence / Marina Garcia-Granero

Mimesis, posthumanism, and “the absolute antecedent” : some thoughts on Jacques Derrida’s “Advances” / Ivan Callus

Figuration, or the desire of the posthuman / Stefan Herbrechter

Technics and mimesis : Promethean self-knowledge in the Anthropocene / Nidesh Lawtoo

Noomimesis : the political economy of the meaningless sign / Zeigam Azizov

Posthuman agency and techno-mimetism / Diego Scalco

Imitating nature through technology : on mimesis, innovation, and environmental ethics in the Anthropocene / Philipp Höfele

ai and reverse mimesis : from human imitation to human subjugation? / Kevin LaGrandeur

Coda : philosophical and mimetic posthumanism – a dialogue / Francesca Ferrando and Nidesh Lawtoo -

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Brill, viewed July 2, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Mimetic posthumanism

ISBN:

9004692053

9789004692053

OCLC:

1470867994

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