Homo Mimeticus & Gendered Mimesis

Last HOM Videos "Mimetic Trouble with Judith Butler: I Gender Trouble Revisited" @ButlerHas @ERC_Research @nideshlawtoo youtube.com/watch?v=u38wLS…

Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to Mimesis co-edited with @nideshlawtoo A chorus of voices working together to launch mimetic studies. Open Access thanks to the @ERC_Research @LeuvenUP @HOM_GMProject lup.be/book/homo-mime…

Lecture on #Mimesis, @realDonaldTrump @JDVance, #Fascism now available here: youtube.com/watch?v=LO2px4…

Next Week--mimetic studies goes back to the (new) #fascism it anticipated: msupress.org/9781611863291/… @msupress @LeuvenUP @MimesisEdizioni @ErnoEsken

Mimetic Posthumanism is out! FREE download thanks to @ERC_Research support 👇 brill.com/display/title/… @critposthum @posthumanisms @posthuman_ntwrk @ThePosthumanLab @Posthuman_Crit @PosthumanitiesH

Timely podcast @OnPointRadio with @MeghnaWBUR and Jack Beatty wnyc.org/story/the-jack… via @WNYC confirming the ongoing relevance of mimesis for (new) fascism: msupress.org/9781628963724/… @COVRscholars @msupress

Just because Donald Trump acts goofy doesn’t mean his presidency wouldn’t be dangerous. And you don’t have to take my word for it. Lately, some of the people who know Trump the best have been saying in no uncertain terms that he should not be president again.

Book Launch of Homo Mimeticus II @LeuvenUP @ERC_Research @MarinaGGranero @HOM_GMProject youtube.com/watch?v=kXnzmW…

AI might be able to outperform CEOs, and yet we are panicking of AI replacing low-level white-collar workers but not CEOs. It shows how job automation is not just a matter of technical feasibility, but mostly of worker bargaining power. hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can…

Derrida Seminars: A Digital Repository of Jacques Derrida's Teaching Notes dpul.princeton.edu/derridaseminars

Online book launch of Homo Mimeticus II @LeuvenUP co-edited with @MarinaGGranero tomorrow, 17/10, 5pm CET. Zoom Link & free download here: homomimeticus.eu thanks to @ERC_Research @KULeuvenOpenSc @HOM_GMProject

"The very same law of implicit utilization of the inner sense of movement, as the main element of dancing, will be effective. " Wassily Kandinsky – Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911). en.matteomascolo.com/post/kandinsky…

Homo Mimeticus II now OUT! Many thanks to co-editor @MarinaGGranero, the editorial team at @LeuvenUP, and all contributors for widening the reach of #mimeticstudies @HOM_GMProject. Free download thanks to @ERC_Research support here👇 library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…

#ACLA25 Seminars @ACLAorg are now OPEN. Check out this seminar on "Mimetic Studies" organized by @nideshlawtoo & Mathijs Peters @LUCAS_Leiden acla.org/mimetic-studie…

Homo Mimeticus II will be out sooner than planned thanks to wonderful teamwork with @MarinaGGranero @LeuvenUP @ERC_Research & all contributors! lup.be/book/homo-mime…

Homo Mimeticus now available also in Spanish with @Tirant_ESP: editorial.tirant.com/es/ebook/homo-… Many thanks to: @PedroJTeruel (ed.), Jesus Valdes Blanqued (trans.), @MarinaGGranero & @ERC_Research!

Today is Georges Bataille's birthday. “The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”

1. For those Vance-inspired American nationalists trying to claim an intellectual mandate from René Girard, I would suggest a careful reading of “Achever Clausewitz” (2011) - trans "Battling to the End" - in relation to political theology and the concept of apocalypse. A short 🧵

Next @HOM_GMProject output coming soon with Brill! @critposthum @posthumanisms @posthuman_ntwrk

A conversation on the #cathartic or #contagious effects of media violence @MimesisEdizioni for "Incontri" di Michela Daghini (italiano). rsi.ch/rete-uno/progr…