Description:
This is the third volume of a trilogy on Homo Mimeticus, yet in no way does it seek to bring mimetic studies to an end. On the contrary, the ambition of this book is to further the mimetic turn via a new beginning. In collaboration with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou, international contributors argue that plasticity--understood in its double capacity to receive form and to give form--plays a transformative role in the many lives of homo mimeticus qua homo plasticus. Ranging from philosophy to literature, sociology to semiology, the plastic arts to neurobiology, and addressing subjects as diverse as epigenetic mimesis and neuroliterature, plastic figures and the mimetic subconscious, Homo Mimeticus III shows that both new materialisms and mimetic studies are central to affirming plastic metamorphoses in the twenty-first century.
In collaboration with Catherine Malabou.
Review Quotes:
Homo Mimeticus III is a major contribution to contemporary thought. Through elegant argumentation, intellectual range, and remarkable conceptual inventiveness, the volume reanimates and redefines the relation between mimesis and plasticity for an era of radical transformation. It will be indispensable reading for scholars of philosophy, critical theory, and beyond. - Catherine Kellogg, University of Alberta