A different, immanent, embodied, and relational conception of mimesis is currently informing the posthuman turn. Emerging from an ERC-funded project titled Homo Mimeticus, this opening essay introduces mimetic turn in studies via three related steps: first, it differentiates aesthetic realism metaphysics sameness entails a open to differential processes becoming other; second inscribes brief ge...

The word “performance” is one laden with immense—if sometimes only theoretical or even metaphysical—possibilities which stretch the known boundaries of conventional representation. “Performances” can be mimetic, and in certain cases, ones based on simulation. Ideologically motivated theatre for activism is too common for our own times, but the ramifications of present global power relations dem...

The premodern city was frequently organized as a self-reflexive representation of universal order; the perceived design of the cosmos was inscribed in the ideal order of society, and from this ideal flowed moral authority and social stability (Townsend 1979; Wheatley 1971; Wright 1977). Certain pre-Hispanic Andean capitals, such as Inca Cusco, Chan Chan, the capital of the Kingdom of Chimor, an...

In this demonstration we present Mimesis, a virtual environment with interactive stereoscopic real time graphics and interactive sound that works as a visual and musical instrument. We have developed two display systems, a spatialized sound system and a passive horizontal stereoscopic visual system, that help users create visuals and music. Both systems work together increasing the sense of imm...

Kornblumenblau (Leszek Wosiewicz 1989) is a film that explores the experience of a Polish political prisoner interned at Auschwitz I. It particularly foregrounds issues related to Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust in its diegesis. Holocaust films are often discussed in relation to representation and the cultural specificity of their production context. However, this paper suggests th...

How can we reconcile the conception of language as a conventional-normative semiotic system with a perception/action-based account of its structure and meaning? And why should linguistic meaning--as opposed to linguistic expression--be so closely related to motor activity and its neural underpinnings, as suggested by recent findings? A conceptual framework and evolutionary scenario building on ...

This paper examines two questions that emerged from a viewing of Hotel Pro Forma's contemporary peiformance The Algebra of Place. It questions how and why the viewer's perception altered when observing the convergence of live and mediatised peiformance, with particular reference to an altered perception oforiginal and copy. It also questions the perception ofspace, time and the per­ former's id...