Mimetic Contagion
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Imitation Contagion Suggestion
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Author : Christian Borch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-16
Imitation Contagion Suggestion written by Christian Borch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-16 with Social Science categories.
Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other traders. It is not a novel observation that people often imitate others. Some might even suggest that mimesis is at the core of human interaction. However, understanding such mimesis and its broader implications is no trivial task. Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion sheds important light on the ways in which society is intimately linked to and characterized by mimetic patterns. Taking its starting point in late-nineteenth-century discussions about imitation, contagion, and suggestion, the volume examines a theoretical framework in which mimesis is at the center. The volume investigates some of the key sociological, psychological, and philosophical debates on sociality and individuality that emerged in the wake of the late-nineteenth-century imitation, contagion, and suggestion theorization, and which involved notable thinkers such as Gabriel Tarde, Emile Durkheim, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Furthermore, the volume demonstrates the ways in which important aspects of this theorization have been mobilized throughout the twentieth century and how they may advance present-day analyses of topical issues relating to, e.g. neuroscience, social media, social networks, agent-based modelling, terrorism, virology, financial markets, and affect theory. One of the significant ideas advanced in theories of imitation, contagion, and suggestion is that the individual should be seen not as a sovereign entity, but rather as profoundly externally shaped. In other words, the decisions people make may be unwitting imitations of other people’s decisions. Against this backdrop, the volume presents new avenues for social theory and sociological research that take seriously the suggestion that individuality and the social may be mimetically constituted.
Mimetic Contagion
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Author : Robert Germany
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-13
Mimetic Contagion written by Robert Germany and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-13 with History categories.
When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This notion of 'mimetic contagion' was a persistent and widespread mode of framing response to art across the ancient world, discernible in both popular and elevated cultural forms, yet deployed differently in various historical contexts; it is only under the specificity of a particular cultural moment's concerns that it becomes most useful as a lens for understanding how that culture is attempting to negotiate the problems of representation. After framing the phenomenon in terms general enough to be applicable across many periods, literary genres, and artistic media, this volume takes a particular literary work, Terence's Eunuch, as a starting point, both as a vivid example of this extensive pattern, and as a case study situating use of the motif within the peculiarities of a particular historical moment, in this case mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art. One of the features of mimetic contagion frequently noted in this study is its capacity to render the operation of a particular work of art an emblem for the effect of representation more generally, and this is certainly the case in the Eunuch, whereby the painting at the centre of the play functions as a metatheatrical figure for the dynamics of mimesis throughout, illustrating how the concept may function as the key to a particular literary work. Although mimetic contagion is only one available Greco-Roman strategy for understanding the power of art, by offering an extended reading of a single work of literature through this lens, this volume demonstrates what ramifications closer attention to it might have for modern readers and literary criticism.
Mimetic Contagion
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Author : Robert Germany
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Mimetic Contagion written by Robert Germany and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with History categories.
When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This notion of 'mimetic contagion' was a persistent and widespread mode of framing response to art across the ancient world, discernible in both popular and elevated cultural forms, yet deployed differently in various historical contexts; it is only under the specificity of a particular cultural moment's concerns that it becomes most useful as a lens for understanding how that culture is attempting to negotiate the problems of representation. After framing the phenomenon in terms general enough to be applicable across many periods, literary genres, and artistic media, this volume takes a particular literary work, Terence's Eunuch, as a starting point, both as a vivid example of this extensive pattern, and as a case study situating use of the motif within the peculiarities of a particular historical moment, in this case mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art. One of the features of mimetic contagion frequently noted in this study is its capacity to render the operation of a particular work of art an emblem for the effect of representation more generally, and this is certainly the case in the Eunuch, whereby the painting at the centre of the play functions as a metatheatrical figure for the dynamics of mimesis throughout, illustrating how the concept may function as the key to a particular literary work. Although mimetic contagion is only one available Greco-Roman strategy for understanding the power of art, by offering an extended reading of a single work of literature through this lens, this volume demonstrates what ramifications closer attention to it might have for modern readers and literary criticism.
New Fascism
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Author : Nidesh Lawtoo
language : en
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-01
New Fascism written by Nidesh Lawtoo and has been published by Michigan State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with Political Science categories.
Fascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behavior, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for the growing shadow cast by authoritarian leaders who rely on new media to take possession of the digital age. Donald Trump is considered here as a case study to illustrate Nietzsche’s untimely claim that, one day, “ ‘actors,’ all kinds of actors, will be the real masters.” In the process, Lawtoo joins forces with a genealogy of mimetic theorists—from Plato to Girard, through Nietzsche, Tarde, Le Bon, Freud, Bataille, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy, among others—to show that (new) fascism may not be fully “new,” let alone original; yet it effectively reloads the old problematics of mimesis via new media that have the disquieting power to turn politics itself into a fiction.
Contagion
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Contagion written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Imitation categories.
Contagious Metaphor
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Author : Peta Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-03-14
Contagious Metaphor written by Peta Mitchell and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in such terms as 'social contagion' in psychology, 'financial contagion' in economics, 'viral marketing' in business, and even 'cultural contagion' in anthropology. In the twenty-first century, contagion, or 'thought contagion' has become a byword for creativity and a fundamental process by which knowledge and ideas are communicated and taken up, and resonates with André Siegfried's observation that 'there is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas'. In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the metaphor of contagion and its relationship to the workings of language. Examining both metaphors of contagion and metaphor as contagion, Contagious Metaphor suggests a framework through which the emergence and often epidemic-like reproduction of metaphor can be better understood.
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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Author : René Girard
language : en
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Release Date : 2001
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning written by René Girard and has been published by Gracewing Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Bible categories.
The title echoes Jesus' words: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven." Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, God's nonviolent kingdom, is being realized - even now.
Contagion 27
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Author : William A. Johnsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-11
Contagion 27 written by William A. Johnsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with categories.
In This Issue William A. Johnsen, From the Editor Paul Dumouchel, "After-Truth" Duncan John Morrow, "No End of (Mimetic) Crises? Reflections on Mimetic Escalation, Order, and the Nature of Peacemaking in the Shadow of Brexit" Wiel Eggen, "A Monadic Prelate without Divine Rival: On Girard's Bifurcated Focus" D. Vincent Riordan, "The Stones That the Builders Rejected: The Scapegoat Mechanism and Evolutionary Psychiatry" Stéphanie Hage, "Joyous Sacrifice: On the Scapegoat as Voluntary Victim in 'Song of Myself' and 'Howl'" Paul L. Lynch, "Recovering Rhetoric: René Girard as Theorhetor" Ralph Hage, "Necessary Victims: William Shakespeare's Tragic Ethics of Identity" Norrec Nieh, "'Approved Flesh': The Sacrificial Foundations of Modernity in Peter Shaffer's Equus" Jordan Joseph Wale, "The Satanic and the Theomimetic: Differentiating 'Sacrifice' in René Girard and Gregory the Great" Ryan Gerard Duns, "Desire and Conversion in The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
Violence And The Mimetic Unconscious Volume 2
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Author : Nidesh Lawtoo
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2023-10-01
Violence And The Mimetic Unconscious Volume 2 written by Nidesh Lawtoo and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-01 with Philosophy categories.
Representations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age? In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy of a long-neglected, embodied, relational, and highly mimetic unconscious that, well before the discovery of mirror neurons, posited mirroring reactions as a via regia to a phantom ego. Rather than being the product of a solipsistic discovery, the unconscious turns out to have haunted philosophers, psychologists, and artists for a long time. This book proposes a genealogy of untimely philosophical physicians that goes from Plato to Nietzsche, Bernheim to Féré, Freud to Bataille, Arendt to Girard, affect theory to the neurosciences. In their company, Lawtoo promotes the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies by reevaluating the unconscious actions and reactions of homo mimeticus. As a new theory of mimesis emerges, Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious offers a searching diagnosis as to why the pathos of (new) media violence—from film to video games, police murders to the storming of the U.S Capitol—continues to cast a material shadow on the present and future.
Contagion 25
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Author : William A. Johnsen
language : en
Publisher: Msu Press Journals
Release Date : 2018-07-25
Contagion 25 written by William A. Johnsen and has been published by Msu Press Journals this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
IN THIS ISSUE Editor's Note Articles Maria Stella Barberi, "'The enemy is the external form of our own question': Four Notes on the Mimetic Roots of Political Identities" Matthew J. Packer, "'More American than America': Mimetic Theory and the East Asia-United States Rivalries" Nathan W. O'Halloran, SJ, "The Pre-Human Biological and Cultural Transmission of the Effects of Originating Sin" Ralph Hage, "Protecting Identity: Violence and Its Representations in France, 1815-1830" Otto von Busch, "Mimesis, Clothed in Violence" Hanna Mäkelä, "The Reception of René Girard's Thought in Finland and Scandinavia: From the 1980s to the Present" Michael S. Koppisch, "Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mimetic Desire in a Geopolitical Context" Ángel J. Barahona Plaza, "Spain (1975/2017) from a Girardian Perspective" Nidesh Lawtoo, "Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious (Part One): The Cathartic Hypothesis: Aristotle, Freud, Girard" Giuseppe Fornari, "Ecstatico-Objectual Mediation: A New Approach to the Enigma of Human Culture" Brian Harding, "Tauromachia as Counter-Sacrificial Ritual: Insights from Mimetic Theory"