Homo Ecologicus: Animism, Historical Materialism and Planetary Mimesis.
In: MLN, Jg. 138 (2023-12-01), Heft 5, S. 1520-1544
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The contemporary return toward mimesis turns in at least two directions. The first doubles down on Plato's suspicion of mimesis as a contagious threat to rationality and the healthy functioning of the polis and in this sense advocates, at the level of human behaviour, a turning away from mimesis and the pathological, all-too-human nature of homo mimeticus. The second form of the mimetic turn is a more wholehearted turning towards mimesis, seen not as contagious pathology but as cure, as planetary solution to our all-too-human modes of being in the world. This essay is interested in this second, utopian turn towards mimesis, charting the dialectical re-emergence of homo mimeticus as homo ecologicus in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment and Noongar novelist Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Homo Ecologicus: Animism, Historical Materialism and Planetary Mimesis.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Durrant, Sam |
Zeitschrift: | MLN, Jg. 138 (2023-12-01), Heft 5, S. 1520-1544 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0026-7910 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1353/mln.2023.a922037 |
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