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

Next Homo Mimeticus & Gendered Mimesis output coming soon with Brill! Critical Posthumanism Network @posthumanisms Posthuman Network

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 🧵

Homo Mimeticus now available also in Spanish with Tirant España: editorial.tirant.com/es/ebook/homo-… Many thanks to: Pedro Jesús Teruel (ed.), Jesus Valdes Blanqued (trans.), Marina García-Granero Gascó & European Research Council (ERC)!

Homo Mimeticus II will be out sooner than planned thanks to wonderful teamwork with Marina García-Granero Gascó LeuvenUP European Research Council (ERC) & all contributors! lup.be/book/homo-mime…

#ACLA25 Seminars ACLA are now OPEN. Check out this seminar on "Mimetic Studies" organized by Nidesh Lawtoo & Mathijs Peters LUCAS - Centre for the Arts in Society acla.org/mimetic-studie…

Homo Mimeticus II now OUT! Many thanks to co-editor Marina García-Granero Gascó, the editorial team at LeuvenUP, and all contributors for widening the reach of #mimeticstudies Homo Mimeticus & Gendered Mimesis. Free download thanks to European Research Council (ERC) support here👇 library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…

"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…

Online book launch of Homo Mimeticus II LeuvenUP co-edited with Marina García-Granero Gascó tomorrow, 17/10, 5pm CET. Zoom Link & free download here: homomimeticus.eu thanks to European Research Council (ERC) KU Leuven Open Science Homo Mimeticus & Gendered Mimesis

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…

Book Launch of Homo Mimeticus II LeuvenUP European Research Council (ERC) Marina García-Granero Gascó Homo Mimeticus & Gendered Mimesis youtube.com/watch?v=kXnzmW…

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

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.

Timely podcast On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti and Jack Beatty wnyc.org/story/the-jack… via WNYC 🎙 confirming the ongoing relevance of mimesis for (new) fascism: msupress.org/9781628963724/… COV&R MSU Press

Mimetic Posthumanism is out! FREE download thanks to European Research Council (ERC) support 👇 brill.com/display/title/… Critical Posthumanism Network @posthumanisms Posthuman Network The Posthuman Lab Central Posthumanism Research Network The Posthumanities Hub

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

Lecture on #Mimesis, Donald J. Trump JD Vance, #Fascism now available here: youtube.com/watch?v=LO2px4…

Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to Mimesis co-edited with Nidesh Lawtoo A chorus of voices working together to launch mimetic studies. Open Access thanks to the European Research Council (ERC) LeuvenUP Homo Mimeticus & Gendered Mimesis lup.be/book/homo-mime…

Last HOM Videos "Mimetic Trouble with Judith Butler: I Gender Trouble Revisited" Judith Butler Has Questions European Research Council (ERC) Nidesh Lawtoo youtube.com/watch?v=u38wLS…