Politics Of Mimesis Research Articles

Representation of Arab identity: The Politics of Mimesis

Mimesis, the faculty of imitation, is a channelised process, routing through three ports: the represented, the presenter and the receiver. The object/matter of imitation is selected from the experience of the represented, is framed by the presenter and then perceived by the receiver. When we talk about the selection of the matter that is represented we actually are referring to the subjectivity of the presenter through which all the images are refracted. Then these ‘chosen’ imitations meet the predisposed gaze of the receiver whose response makes or mars the image of the represented. This process of imitation gives rise to the politics of mimesis. The mediations among the represented, the presenter and the receiver are created on the interface between history and reality, where context plays a significant role. By ‘context’ we mean a pluralistic understanding of the political, geographical and social history of a given matter. Themulti-axial comprehension of any form of mimesis particularly of the Arab identity is the urgent need of the day. The schism between Arab states and the rest of the world is progressively widening due to little or prejudiced knowledge about their culture, faith, social construction and topography. One of the major reasons behind this is repeatedly encrusted stereotypes popularised by media. Though there are positive portrayals as well yet the negative images are far more confounding and prominent.

The Death Wish of Modernity and the Politics of Mimesis

This commentary on Afflicted Powers focuses on RETORT's theorization of the spectacle. Through a discussion of mimetic versus metonymic politics and an examination of childhood as a site of spectacle, the domestic security state and the social reproduction of weak citizenship are brought into the discussion.

The Politics of Mimesis in the Platonic Dialogues

The Politics of Mimesis in the Platonic Dialogues

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory (review)

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory (review)

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory

Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory

Review. Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory. Brandt, Joan

Review. Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory. Brandt, Joan

Geopoetics: the politics of mimesis in poststructuralist French poetry and theory

By focusing on the problematic of mimesis in its linguistic, psychoanalytical, and cultural incarnations this book argues, in opposition to those who stress the political inadequacies of the French poststructuralists' privileging of language, that what leads to a theoretical or practical apoliticism is not the emphasis on language and mimetic representation. Rather, it is the failure to examine closely the relationship between mimesis and politics that closes off the possibility of articulating an adequate response to any form of political imperative. To make this point, the book begins by considering the revolution in poetic language of the late 1960's and early 1970's waged by the politically motivated group of poets and theorists associated with the French journal Tel Quel. It examines the impact of its political radicalism on the writings of the major theoretician of the Tel Quel group, Julia Kristeva, and on the work of the most important Tel Quel poets, Marcelin Pleynet and Denis Roche. It also examines the writings of those more closely associated with deconstruction, whose resistance to the highly charged political rhetoric of the period led many critics to denounce the deconstructive approach for its failure to come to terms with the sociopolitical.

"Greatness": Philology and the Politics of Mimesis

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have thrust upon them. This essay addresses the cultural fantasy of heroes and greatness-the fantasy of greatness as something recognizable and objectified-and the ways in which that designation, that epithet, informs and structures our culture. Greatness, as a term, is today both an inflated and a deflated currency, shading over into categories of notoriety, transcendence, and some version of the postmodern fifteen minutes of fame.' Today, greatness sometimes functions rhetorically as pure boilerplate. For example, at the conclusion of the recent American trade embassy to Japan, the Japanese prime minister, Kiichi Miyazawara, having bluntly