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- Title
Homo Ecologicus: Animism, Historical Materialism and Planetary Mimesis.
- Authors
Durrant, Sam
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
MIMESIS; PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; HISTORICAL materialism; HUMAN behavior; ANIMISM
- Publication
MLN, 2023, Vol 138, Issue 5, p1520
- ISSN
0026-7910
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mln.2023.a922037