Mimetic Posthumanism

Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics

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Nidesh Lawtoo
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.
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2025
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Notes on Contributors
Mimetic Posthumanism: An Introduction
Posthuman Mimesis: A Dialogic Prelude with Katherine Hayles
Part 1 The Mimetic Turn in Posthuman Art
Chapter 1 Alchemical Shadows: Homo Mimeticus and Eidolons of Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 2 Toward Posthuman Aesthetics: The Flesh of the World in Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur and The Thinking Robot
Chapter 3 From the Parasite to the BwO: Subversive Mimicry in Viral Zombies
Chapter 4 Be/Longing in the Digital Divide: A Mimetic Play for Somatic Intimacy
Chapter 5 Animation and the Mimetic Posthuman: Pandemic Vulnerabilities Mirrored by Music and Dance
Part 2 Mimetic Re-turns in Posthuman Philosophy
Chapter 6 A Genealogy for Homo Mimeticus 2.0
Chapter 7 Mimicry to Imitation, Mimesis to Simulation: An Evolutionary Outlook on Copying
Chapter 8 Nietzsche’s Legacy for Posthuman Mimesis: Metamorphoses, Embodiment, and Immanence
Chapter 9 Mimesis, Posthumanism, and “the absolute antecedent”: Some Thoughts on Jacques Derrida’s “Advances”
Chapter 10 Figuration, or the Desire of the Posthuman
Part 3 Technics Reloading Mimesis
Chapter 11 Technics and Mimesis: Promethean Self-Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Chapter 12 Noomimesis: The Political Economy of the Meaningless Sign
Chapter 13 Posthuman Agency and Techno-mimetism
Chapter 14 Imitating Nature through Technology: On Mimesis, Innovation, and Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene
Chapter 15 AI and Reverse Mimesis: From Human Imitation to Human Subjugation?
Coda: Philosophical and Mimetic Posthumanism – A Dialogue
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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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

The book is written for an academic readership in posthuman studies and should be of interest to academic libraries, humanities institutes, institutes for the future, as well as scholars and (graduate) student working in the areas of AI, digital humanities, posthumanism, transhumanism, critical theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, aesthetics, film and media studies, and mimetic studies
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