A mimetic turn is emerging in posthuman studies. Taking as a starting point recent re-turn to an immanent, embodied, and relational conception of mimesis constitutive the ERC-funded project, Homo Mimeticus, this paper proposes three related conceptual foundations further “mimetic turn” already at play sf simulations now operative embodied imitations well. Building on pioneering work centrality ...

Theoretical contributions on ‘user resistance’ have recently received increasing attention with regards to explaining the failed integration of various types of information systems. Unlike the yet more widespread technology acceptance theories, user resistance offers an alternative view to systemrelated antecedents by taking into account antecedents at the level of the user and their perceived ...

This paper is partly a response to the ongoing debate in the game world about whether games can be art, and partly an excerpt from my Ph.D. research. I aim to offer some insights in the cognitive experiences gamers have while playing hopefully useful to both designers and scholars. I will argue that an art experience is a particular kind of cognitive experience, namely a distinctive type of ima...